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"Maunder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you," said the landlady; "but facks are facks, and you may pull down the blinds over 'em wi'out putting them out o' existence. There's Laura Tickner—got a face like a peony. She sez it's innade modesty; but we all knows it's arrysippelas, and Matthew Maunder tells us his nose comes from indigestion; but it's liquor, as I've the best reason to know. Matabel, I love you well, but always face facks. You can't get rid of facks any more than you can get rid ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... counters with thin oaken tops; shabby drawers and shelves all round; one or two antiquated brass sconces for candles; a railed-off desk, near the window; and that was all. In this place, almost alone and unassisted, the old man made his money. I copy the following from "Maunder's Biographical Dictionary:" "In conjunction with the bank, he kept a shop to the day of his death, and dealt in almost every article that could be asked for. Nothing was too trifling for 'Jemmy Wood' by which a penny could be turned. He spent the whole week in his banking-shop ...
— Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men • E. Edwards |
Words linked to "Maunder" : mouth, prattle, swan, vagabond, mussitate, chatter, rove, babble, drift, stray, prate, blether, twaddle, mutter, blather, palaver, blither, roll, cast, talk, utter, tittle-tattle, verbalize, blab, range, blabber, clack, verbalise, gibber, ramble, speak |
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