kippered

Example Sentences

• "Our writers of history have been aroused from “ their somnolent antiquarian busy-work on kippered events and are feeling the force of living ones and learning what it means to get in the study of the present inspiration and interest for assimilating a knowledge of the past."
• "At first I thought perhaps my students were writing this kind of kippered prose because they were attempting scenes and subjects that they knew nothing about."
• "and he caused offence by banging the drums and beating the cymbals at a dance in Lucknow, and sitting at table beside pretty ingénues rather than kippered memsahibs of suitable seniority."
• "She was, at heart, as dry, as kippered, as intentionalist, and coldly selfconscious as the driest of Egyptian book-keepers in a great merchant firm at Corinth."
• "Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago."
• "Cigar clenched between his knuckles, Johnnie Whiteside patted Gordon's knee. 'How d'you feel, old spud?' 'Slightly kippered,' Gordon answered. 'Not too kippered?' said Eric."