Podsnappery

• “And "Podsnappery" exists among women even more than among men, because of their more sensitive emotional nature.”

  Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife

• “It was somehow understood, as a secret article in the state proprieties of Podsnappery that nothing must be said about the day.”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “It may not be so wrirten in the Gospel according to Podsnappery; you may not ‘find these words’ for the text of a sermon, in the”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “There was not much youth among the bathers, but there was no youth (the young person always excepted) in the articles of Podsnappery.”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “These may be said to have been the articles of a faith and school which the present chapter takes the liberty of calling, after its representative man, Podsnappery.”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “Whereupon, arranging herself in an expert parody of the Marine Insurance agent's selfimportant posture, she launches into her own version of the scheduled musical Podsnappery:”

  The Satanic Verses

• “The rage for rising in the social scale ruins the Veneerings, and Podsnappery is a well-chosen name far the heartless dogmatism which rules in English society.”

  English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

• “It is in fact (he will welcome an allusion to Dickens almost as much as one to Aristotle) the higher Podsnappery.”

  The Melting-Pot

• “Podsnappery of the hour in its vigilance against moral and religious taint.”

  Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

• “Then the discreet automaton who had surveyed his ground, played a blossomless tuneless 'set,' and sixteen disciples of Podsnappery went through the figures of - 1, Getting up at eight and shaving close at a quarter past - 2, Breakfasting at nine - 3, Going to the City at ten - 4, Coming home at half-past five - 5, Dining at seven, and the grand chain.”

  Our Mutual Friend

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