lockrums

• Halifax with your long lockrums about politics, makin ', a great touss about nothin'; but open the country, foster agricultur ', encourage trade, incorporate companies, make bridges, facilitate conveyance, and above all things make a railroad from Windsor to Halifax; and mind what I tell you now -- write it down for fear you should forget it, for it's a fact; and if you don't believe me, I'll lick you till you do, for there ain't a word of a lie in it, by gum -- ONE SUCH WORK —  The Clockmaker
• I'd say to the members, don't come down here to Halifax with your long lockrums about politicks, makin, a great touss about nothin; but open the country, foster agricultur, encourage trade, incorporate companies, make bridges, facilitate conveyance, and above all things make a Railroad from —  The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville

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