Slowboy

Slowboy to the Baby; ‘and did its hair grow brown and curly, when its caps was lifted off, and frighten it, a precious Pets, a – sitting by the fires!’

The Cricket on the Hearth 2007

Miss Slowboy, firm in the belief that diving hotly in among the other couples, and effecting any number of concussions with them, is your only principle of footing it.

The Cricket on the Hearth 2007

The soft – hearted Slowboy trailed off at this juncture, into such

The Cricket on the Hearth 2007

Miss Slowboy, in the mean time, who had a mechanical power of reproducing scraps of current conversation for the delectation of the baby, with all the sense struck out of them, and all the nouns changed into the plural number, inquired aloud of that young creature, Was it

The Cricket on the Hearth 2007

It may be noted of Miss Slowboy that she had a rare and surprising talent for getting the baby into difficulties; and had several times imperilled its short life, in a quiet way peculiarly her own.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

For the maternal and paternal Slowboy were alike unknown to Fame, and Tilly had been bred by public charity, a foundling; which word, though only differing from fondling by one vowel's length, is very different in meaning, and expresses quite another thing.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

In one place there was a mound of weeds burning, and they watched the fire until, in consequence, as she observed, of the smoke "getting up her nose," Miss Slowboy choked -- she could do anything of that sort on the smallest provocation -- and woke the baby, who wouldn't go to sleep again.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Caleb no sooner sees this, than he clutches Tilly Slowboy by both hands and goes off at score; Miss Slowboy, firm in the belief that diving hotly in among the other couples, and effecting any number of concussions witb them, is your only principle of footing it.

The Cricket on the Hearth 1845

"Miss Slowboy, will you have the kindness to throw that in the fire?" ...

The Cricket on the Hearth 1845

The soft-hearted Slowboy trailed off at this juncture, into such a deplorable howl, the more tremendous from its long suppression, that she must infallibly have awakened the Baby, and frightened him into something serious (probably convulsions), if her eyes had not encountered Caleb Plummer, leading in his daughter.

The Cricket on the Hearth 1845