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And the crew of gipsies, whifflers, mountebanks, fortune tellers, cut-purses and quacks, mix'd up with honest country faces, beat even the rabble I had seen at Wantage.

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

I am speaking now of _true_ Christians, thoroughly renewed in the spirit of their mind; courageous, unflinching, consistent Christians: not of those whifflers and compromisers who call themselves Christians, and who try to trim between God and the world, so as to relinquish no advantages on the side of either.

Amusement: A Force in Christian Training Marvin Richardson Vincent 1878

Sheldrakes and goosanders, coots and gulls, whifflers and dippers, made the best of Sunday, and bathed and wrote their winged penmanship on the white sheet of water.

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

'But free mouths blowing into brass and wood, ma'am, beat your bellows and your whifflers; your artificial choruses -- crash, crash! your unanimous plebiscitums!

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

'But free mouths blowing into brass and wood, ma'am, beat your bellows and your whifflers; your artificial choruses -- crash, crash! your unanimous plebiscitums!

Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

'But free mouths blowing into brass and wood, ma'am, beat your bellows and your whifflers; your artificial choruses -- crash, crash! your unanimous plebiscitums!

Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

The last of the whifflers hanged himself about a fortnight ago on a bell-rope in a church steeple of 'the old town,' from pure grief that there was no further demand for the exhibition of his art, there being no demand for whiffling since the discontinuation of

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

The last of the whifflers hanged himself about a fortnight ago on a bell-rope in a church steeple of "the old town," from pure grief that there was no further demand for the exhibition of his art, there being no demand for whiffling since the discontinuation of

The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

Sir John Toddy is a clever open-hearted gentleman as I ever knew, one that wont turn his back upon a poor man, but will take a chearful cup with one as well as another, and it does honour to Mr. Wou'dbe to prefer such a one, to any of your whifflers who han't the heart to be generous, and yet despise poor folks.

A Collection of Plays and Poems, by the Late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg County, in the State of Virginia. Now First Published Together. 1798

But I am apt to think that men of a great genius are hardly brought to prostitute their pens in a very odious cause; which besides, is more properly undertaken by noise and impudence, by gross railing and scurrility, by calumny and lying, and by little trifling cavils and carpings in the wrong place, which those whifflers use for arguments and answers.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706