long-ears

“Say, you sure take the cake, stepping out just to knock over a couple of long-ears; and then coming back ten minutes later with a fine antelope on your back.”

The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave

“And our worship of “beautiful sentiments,” &c., &c. is as contemptible a form of long-ears as any other, perhaps the most so of any.”

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II

“But lo! only last night, I had to write, on the part of Mr. Carlyle, to a certain ungainly, foolish gentleman who keeps back from him, with all the fussy impotence of stupidity (not bad feeling, alas! for _that_ we could deal with) a certain MS. letter of Cromwell's which completes the collection now going to press; and this long-ears had to be 'dear”

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846

“And our worship of "beautiful sentiments," &c., &c. is as contemptible a form of long-ears as any other, perhaps the most so of any.”

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.

“She leaned her head over into the street; then, with a miraculous lightness and address, jumped on to the window-sill, pricking up her long-ears, and raising one of her paws.”

The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental

“I had to write, on the part of Mr. Carlyle, to a certain ungainly, foolish gentleman who keeps back from him, with all the fussy impotence of stupidity (not bad feeling, alas! for that we could deal with) a certain MS. letter of Cromwell's which completes the collection now going to press; and this long-ears had to be 'dear Sir'd and obedient servanted' till I said (to use a mild word) 'commend me to the sincerities of this kind of thing.'!”

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

“Cheers for the long-ears December / January 2002 Issue # 195 - December / January 2003”

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