eumoirous

• “It sounded glorious and eumoirous and quixotic and deucedly funny, during the noble moment of inspiration, when Lola's golden eyes were upon me; but now -- well, I shall have to persuade myself that it is funny, if I am to carry it out.”

  Simon the Jester

• “I had no clear notion of the means whereby I was to accomplish this; but I knew that it would be a philanthropic pursuit far different from my previous eumoirous wanderings abut London when, with a mind conscious of well-doing, I distributed embarrassing five-pound notes to the poor and needy.”

  Simon the Jester

• “Then I would have ended my eumoirous task, and my last happy words would be a paternal benediction.”

  Simon the Jester

• “I regarded the failure of my eumoirous little plans with more than satisfaction.”

  Simon the Jester

• “Dale has just been elected for the Fensham Division of Westmoreland, and he has already begun the line of sturdy young Kynnersleys, of which I had eumoirous dreams long ago.”

  Simon the Jester

• “He can thus hoist Destiny with its own petard, and, besides, being eumoirous, can spend a month or two in a peculiarly diverting manner.”

  Simon the Jester

• “Was it in order to further my designs -- Machiavellian towards the lady, but eumoirous towards Dale?”

  Simon the Jester

• “Is there any drug I wonder which can restore a eumoirous tone to the system?”

  Simon the Jester

• “Indeed, I had grown so used to the story of my lamentable pursuit of the eumoirous that I rattled it off mechanically after the manner of the sturdy beggar telling his mendacious tale of undeserved misfortune.”

  Simon the Jester

• “How could I explain my precious pursuit of the eumoirous to a French”

  Simon the Jester

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