"Nonsuch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shutting. Partial be blowed! I'm a Surreyite down to my socks, that's a fact, Sir. Must shout when my countymen score, and don't mind being caught in the act, Sir. Cracks didn't somehow come off. ARTHUR SHREWSBURY, Notts' great nonsuch, Didn't make fifty all told, and our WALTER—the world holds but one such— A poor twenty-five and eighteen—a mere fleabite for W. W. Still, he's our glory; and if you can spot such another, I'll trouble you. GRACE? Why, of course, in his day he was cock ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 • Various
... ends as it ought," said I, "Mr Farrel; neither Jew nor Gentle dare dispute that; and as to the telling of it, I do not think man of woman born, except maybe James Batter, who is a nonsuch, could have handled it more prettily. I like to hear virtue aye getting ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir |
