"Brummagem" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Exams: were a Brummagem fashion Of mobs and inferior taste; They withered "Translucence" and "Passion," They vulgarised leisure by haste. Self to realise—that was the question, Inscrutable still while the cooks Of our Colleges preached indigestion, Their Dons ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 100. Feb. 28, 1891 • Various
... potentate or Brummagem magnate. The word occurs in S. Foote's farrago of nonsense, which he wrote to test the memory of old Macklin, who said in a lecture "he had brought his own memory to such perfection that he could learn anything by ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... The heaven of the Book of Revelation, with its gold and silver and precious stones, is nothing but a magnified jeweller's shop, and a study of it has influenced the style of later writers. At present Christian gushers have descended still lower, dealing not even in gold and jewels, but in Brummagem and paste. The word gem is greatly in vogue. Talmage uses it about twenty times in every lecture, Parker delights in it, and it often figures on the pages of serious books. In the article before us it is made ...
— Arrows of Freethought • George W. Foote
... lady "glanced her eye over page after page in hopes of meeting with something that was intelligible," and no wonder she did not care for a long letter "devoted to the subject of a mill between Belasco and the Brummagem youth." Peter was so ill-advised as to appear before her with glorious scars, "two black eyes" in fact, and she "was inexorably cruel." Peter did not survive her disdain. "The lady still lives, and is married"! It is ...
— Letters on Literature • Andrew Lang |
