etonicè

Example Sentences

• "To do this in proper style, is, I assure you, reckoned a most difficult thing among the most expert performers; utterly unattainable, I am sure, by any of the rustics (Etonicè Clods) whom one sees playing at home."
• "The crew consists of ten men, besides there is or captain; they are active, willing, good-humoured fellows, and have harmonious voices, a great lounge (to speak Etonicé), as the Arab boatmen are a noisy set, constantly singing to their work, and always in chorus; one of them leads, and the rest join in, generally line by line, alternately, neither uttering more than five or six words at a time."
• "We remember in ancient times, when William IV. was king, on a magnificent sheet of brownish water, gracefully named Duck Puddle, a select little coterie of waterfunks (the title sufficiently explains itself—Etonicè frousts) would be unjustifiably but carefully placed on two old punts, or on a punt and an unhinged door, massive as that of Gaza, and on those treacherous rafts committed like Danae to the mercy of the waves."
• "The Comte de Ségur, in his amusing 'Mémoires et Souvenirs,' observes, à propos of his first interview with Frederick the Great of Prussia, that anyone with a due allowance of 'élevation dans l'âme' (Hibericè, 'asy assurance') can undergo the ceremony of introduction to a crowned head with proper dignity and composure; but that a certain degree of émotion—(Etonicè, 'funk')—is inevitable on being first brought face to face with a really Great Man."
• "I've funk'd and stew'd¹ to think what earthly power / […] ¹Etonice for being frightened, or alarmed at, as may be illustrated by the following imaginary talk between two lower boys:—"I say, old fellow, who funks a flogging?" "Not I, my boy! but I am in a precious stew about that licking Box Major promised me!""