Bickerstaff

Ever since she took this liquor, which I call Bickerstaff's Circumspection Water, she looks right forward, and can bear being looked at for half a day without returning one glance.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

That doesn't mean Bickerstaff is ruling out a move.

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I shall say very little of it, only that it is the chief of the Staffs, and called Bickerstaff, _quasi_ Biggerstaff; as much as to say, the great staff, or staff of staffs; and that it has applied itself to astronomy with great success, after the example of our aforesaid forefather.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

I shall say very little of it, only that it is the chief of the Staffs, and called Bickerstaff, quasi Biggerstaff; as much as to say, the Great

Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer Richard Steele 1700

Astrology under the name of "Bickerstaff;" the "Argument against abolishing Christianity;" and the defence of the "Sacramental Test."

Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

"Bickerstaff," induced Steele, when he projected the Tatler, to assume an appellation which had already gained possession of the reader's notice.

Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

'Bickerstaff's Lucubrations' was attended with much the same consequences as the death of Meliboeus's 'Ox' in Virgil: as the latter engendered swarms of bees, the former immediately produced whole swarms of little satirical scribblers.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

'Bickerstaff' ventured to tell the Town that they were a parcel of fops, fools, and coquettes; but in such a manner as even pleased them, and made them more than half inclined to believe that he spoke truth.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

"In most cases, breaking a quorum has resulted in a temporary victory but a longer-term defeat," said Steve Bickerstaff, a University of Texas adjunct law professor and author of "Lines in the Sand," about an incident in which more than 50 Texas Democratic legislators fled temporarily to Oklahoma, New Mexico and even Mexico in 2003.

Skipping Town: Tried-and-True Tactical Trick Thomas M. Burton 2011

Mr. Bickerstaff said that in 1840, as a member of the Illinois legislature, Mr. Lincoln and Whig colleagues fled to avoid one vote, and legend has it Mr. Lincoln climbed out a window to do so.

Skipping Town: Tried-and-True Tactical Trick Thomas M. Burton 2011