Ferguses

And I staid there lying on a sofa mostly, till the Sunday afternoon, when the Ferguses 'carriage came for me.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Ferguses; but somehow or other they are radically uncomfortable people for us to be mixed up with, in spite of their 'good intentions.'

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

/Say all that is kind and grateful from me to the good Ferguses.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

It is very stupid of the Ferguses - a fact almost as absurd as speaking to Elizabeth of sending us potatoes last year, and never sending them.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Vivid at this hour are all these movements to me; but not worth noting: only the Kirkcaldy part, with the good Ferguses, and, after twenty years of absence, was

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

One might have smiled at the idea of the vendetta-following Ferguses praying for "justification by

By Shore and Sedge Bret Harte 1869