Chollop

Part of this referred to Chollop, and part to a Western postmaster, who, being a public defaulter not very long before (a character not at all uncommon in America), had been removed from office; and on whose behalf Mr

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

Chollop continued to smoke without the least appearance of emotion, until he felt disposed to speak again.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

‘Europian not to know,’ said Chollop, smoking placidly.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

‘We must be cracked up, sir,’ retorted Chollop, in a tone of menace.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

‘But not as moist as England, sir?’ cried Chollop, with a fierce expression in his face.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

There is little doubt that Chollop would have planted this standard in

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

Professor Chollop, who is superintending the taking of the pictures of the battle of Cannæ and the subsequent period of repose at Capua in their proper atmosphere, states that he is receiving every support from the local condottieri, pifferari, banditti and lazzaroni, and expects to be able to complete his task by the late autumn.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30 Various

He does not suggest that the bully Chollop had even such coarse good-humour as bullies almost always have.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

Elijah Pogram was far more fantastic than his satirist thought; and the most grotesque feature of Brick and Chollop was hidden from him.

What I Saw in America 1905

America would have lived and danced before us like Pickwick's England, a fairyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters, and we might still have sympathised as much with the rhetoric of Lafayette Kettle as with the rhetoric of Wilkins Micawber, or with the violence of Chollop as with the violence of Boythorn.

What I Saw in America 1905