"Coxcomb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... When coxcomb waiters know their trade, Nor mix their sauces[4] with cookey's; When John's no longer chamber maid, And printed well a ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, - Issue 282, November 10, 1827 • Various
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... he has sense enough to conceal the coxcomb. But you ought to know your own nephew, ...
— Trumps • George William Curtis
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... utmost: Scotch Highlanders, Irish Papists, Hanoverians, Canadians, Indians, &c., will all in various shapes be employed." (August 1, 1775.) "What think you of the season, of Siberia is it not? A pleasant campaign in America." (January 29, 1776.) At precisely the same time the sagacious coxcomb of Strawberry Hill was writing thus: "The times are indeed very serious. Pacification with America is not the measure adopted. More regiments are ordered thither, and to-morrow a plan, I fear equivalent to a declaration of war, is to be laid before both Houses. They are bold ministers ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison
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... sense of his own genius, and in a very amiable frame of mind, altogether. In this mood, he joined the family at dinner; after which meal, a few glasses of brandy added fire to the smouldering element within him, and straightway he blazed forth: a gallant, a coxcomb. In this frame of mind, he always admired himself excessively, took stock of his burly legs and brawny shoulders, and smiled sentimentally before the mirror, at his ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
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... shook his fist after his retreating figure. "You d——d, insignificant, snuffy little coxcomb! I'm a d——d sight better doctor than you are. If the Government sends you again, poking your long nose among my people, I'll make a surgical case for you to examine at home ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
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