grimacers

Later in the day, I learned that earlier in the morning, while I was contemplating old-age and loneliness with an audience of catatonics and grimacers in wheelchairs, this very woman was having an argument with another coworker.

A Limo, a Club, a Concert, a Party & a little story barbylon 2002

Later in the day, I learned that earlier in the morning, while I was contemplating old-age and loneliness with an audience of catatonics and grimacers in wheelchairs, this very woman was having an argument with another coworker.

A Limo, a Club, a Concert, a Party & a little story barbylon 2002

I forget in what way, but the upshot is, he bates not a jot in that rouged, wigged, padded, empty-headed, heartless tribe of grimacers that came and canted me; not I, them; -- a thing he cannot understand -- _so_, I am not the one he would have picked out to praise, had he not been _loyal_.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

The same mean conception of humanity brands with ignominy the four generations over which he dominated -- that brood of eunuchs and courtiers, churchmen and _Cavalieri serventi_, barocco architects and brigands, casuists and bravi, grimacers, hypocrites, confessors, impostors, bastards of the spirit, who controlled Italian culture for a hundred years.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

I forget in what way, but the upshot is, he bates not a jot in that rouged, wigged, padded, empty-headed, heartless tribe of grimacers that came and canted me; not I, them; ” a thing he cannot understand ” so, I am not the one he would have picked out to praise, had he not been loyal.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898