volumer

Shall the soaring soul of a three-volumer be restrained by the debasing fetters of a grovelling exactitude?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 Various

Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volumer

Images from Writings of William Dean Howells William Dean Howells 1878

It has already been told how, after a list of the local celebrities had been recited to him, he said, "why, you couldn't stand on your front porch and fire off your revolver without bringing down a two volumer," and no doubt the pleasure he had in it was the effect of its contrast with the wild

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

The variety of talents and of achievements was indeed so great that Mr. Bret Harte, when fresh from his Pacific slope, justly said, after listening to a partial rehearsal of them, "Why, you couldn't fire a revolver from your front porch anywhere without bringing down a two-volumer!"

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volumer

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

The variety of talents and of achievements was indeed so great that Mr. Bret Harte, when fresh from his Pacific slope, justly said, after listening to a partial rehearsal of them, "Why, you couldn't fire a revolver from your front porch anywhere without bringing down a two-volumer!"

White Mr. Longfellow, the (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volumer

A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

It has already been told how, after a list of the local celebrities had been recited to him, he said, "why, you couldn't stand on your front porch and fire off your revolver without bringing down a two volumer," and no doubt the pleasure he had in it was the effect of its contrast with the wild

A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

Now, if you had been taught to be a soldier instead of a volumer, you'd have known that when the enemy's many more than you, you ought to attack him in bits, not take him all at once and get yourself surrounded.

Marcus: the Young Centurion George Manville Fenn 1870