Nosebag

By his regimental acquaintances he had traced out Madam Nosebag, and found her full of ire, fuss, and fidget at discovery of an impostor who had travelled from the north with her under the assumed name of Captain Butler of

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Lord, I wish our old cross Captain Crump would go over to the rebels, that Nosebag might get the troop!

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I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them.

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By his regimental acquaintances he had traced out Madam Nosebag, and found her full of ire, fuss, and fidget, at discovery of an impostor, who had travelled from the north with her under the assumed name of Captain Butler of Gardiner's dragoons.

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` ` O, I knew it at once; I saw you were military from your air, and I am sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them.

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Crump would go over to the rebels, that Nosebag might get the troop!

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` ` Yonder comes Corporal Bridoon, of our poor dear troop; he's coming with the constable man: Bridoon's one of my lambs, as Nosebag calls 'em.

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` ` O aye, those as won the race at the battle of Preston, as my Nosebag says.

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= Nosebag = (_Mrs. _), wife of a lieutenant in the dragoons.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

By his regimental acquaintances he had traced out Madam Nosebag, and found her full of ire, fuss, and fidget at discovery of an impostor who had travelled from the north with her under the assumed name of Captain Butler of Gardiner's dragoons.

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