flourishers

One of the best little flourishers of them all was the wild boar.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

One of the best little flourishers of them all was the wild boar.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

One of the best little flourishers of them all was the wild boar.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

This vessel rejoiced to call herself _Piscataqua_, which is worth recording as a sample of a class of name then much affected by the powers that were, presumably on account of their length; "fine flourishers," to quote the always illustrative Boatswain Chucks, "as long as their homeward-bound pendants, which in a calm drop in the water alongside."

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

The other is that the practical outcome of these institutions is a swarm of conceited flourishers with the pen, who, because they have copied a set or two of model account books and learned to imitate more or less cleverly certain illegibly artistic writing copies, imagine themselves competent for any business post, and worthy of a much higher salary than any merely practical accountant who has never been to a business college or attempted the art of fancy penmanship as exhibited in spread eagles and impossible swans.

Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

Melpomeny, Terpsichory, Arethusy, Bacchanty -- fine flourishers, as long as their pennants which dip alongside in a calm. "

Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820