staggerer

• “Still, it's what the inimitable Dick Swiveller would call a staggerer," he muttered.”

  The Crimson Blind

• “Nellie's answer to this question was a "staggerer" to Master Bob, as he termed it in his choice phraseology.”

  Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel

• “I don't know whether you intended that for a joke or for a staggerer.”

  Book 24: The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces

• “My aunt in the country stops the supplies, and writes an affectionate note to say that she has made a new will, and left me out of it — staggerer, number two.”

  The Old Curiosity Shop

• ““Whom God hath joined together,” was a staggerer for a gentlewoman of strong devotional sentiment.”

  The Woodlanders

• “The gospel proclamation is of pardon to all comers in, to all believers: it is not for thee, poor staggerer, to question what is the intendment towards thee in particular, but roll thyself on this, there is an absolute sincerity in the engagement which thou mayest freely rest upon.”

  The Sermons of John Owen

• “A real staggerer by a man who is both a poetic dreamer and a competent scientist.”

  Expedition to Earth

• “At present the inoculation mania has reached the pitch of proposing no less than four separate inoculations: revaccination, typhoid, cholera, and -- Sir Almroth's last staggerer -- inoculation against wounds!”

  New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index

• “There's a staggerer! being alive no rule for _not_ being buried! how _is_”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841

• “But this I can most trewly say, that my slice of luck during this larst munth is worthy of being called a reel staggerer!”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892

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