Jeremy Diddler

For, in splendour of appearance, he was at least equal to the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod; and the idea of his carrying, as Jeremy Diddler would say, ‘such a thing as tenpence’ away with him, seemed monstrous.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Rover too; — you might get up Rover while you were about it, and Cassio, and Jeremy Diddler.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

Abolitionists are to be found out, and reported to George Bickley, a miserable quack and 'confidence man,' a person long familiarly spoken of by the press as a mere Jeremy Diddler, but who has been a useful tool to shrewder men in managing for them this precious Order.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The man who carries no snuff-box is an intimate nuisance -- a hand-in-hand annoyance -- a sort of authorised Jeremy Diddler to all snuff-takers.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various

Duval or a Macheath, but not as a Jeremy Diddler or a Bill Sykes.

The River's End James Oliver Curwood 1903

From Punch and Don Juan down to Robert Macaire, Jeremy Diddler and the pantomime clown, he has always drawn large audiences; but hitherto he has been decorously given to the devil at the end.

The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

The Oedipus Coloneus, the Lear -- the venerable victim of winter winds and men's ingratitude -- was transformed in a moment into an elderly Jeremy Diddler, lined with Lord Foppington.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

The Doctor is a burly, heavily-bearded gentleman (at least in manner); his wife, a more accomplished Jeremy Diddler than himself, is one of the softest - spoken and most amiably-seeming of her sex.

The Secrets of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

"I tell you what it is, Ebony," in similarly changed tones said he who had responded to the whisperer, "yonder churl," pointing toward the wooden leg in the distance, "is, no doubt, a churlish fellow enough, and I would not wish to be like him; but that is no reason why you may not be some sort of black Jeremy Diddler."

The Confidence-Man 1857

Rover too; -- you might get up Rover while you were about it, and Cassio, and Jeremy Diddler.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841