C. Kingsley
Cited as C. Kingsley. — 39 quotations
Black wash
To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen.
Bogy
There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages.
Chaff
A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts.
Clever
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Counter
His left hand countered provokingly.
croodle
A dove to fly home to her nest and croodle there.
Doubleganger
Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger.
Dragonnade
He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands.
Drug
The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles.
Facer
I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer.
Faineance
The mask of sneering faineance was gone.
Fermentation
A univesal fermentation of human thought and faith.
Flapdragon
Cakes and ale, and flapdragons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night.
Fusion
The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds.
Glut
The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
Grandiose
The grandiose red tulips which grow wild.
Grewsome
Grewsome sights of war.
Heathenry
Your heathenry and your laziness.
Horror-sticken
Blank and horror-stricken faces.
Hungry
The cruel, hungry foam.
Lode
Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph.
Materialistic
But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.
Moon
Elsley was mooning down the river by himself.
Out
Three fishers went sailing out into the west, Out into the west, as the sun went down.
Overlook
If you trouble me I will overlook you, and then your pigs will die.
Pamphleteer
By pamphleteering we shall not win.
Rack
And the night rack came rolling up.
Résumé
The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book.
Savagery
A like work of primeval savagery.
Shifty
Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.
Specialty
Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty, their pet subject.
Spinny
The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies.
Tangle
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean.
Tone
Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly.
Topiarian
All the pedantries of the topiarian art.
Tor
A rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree.
Tête-à-tête
She avoided tête-à-tête walks with him.
Virtuosity
This famous passage . . . over which the virtuosity of modern times, rejoicing in evil, has hung so fondly.
Vulturine
The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.