"Shillalah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it. There is also a great deal in that self-possessed extemporaneousness which a man carries in his pocket on a sheet of paper. It reminds one of the compliment which the Irishman paid to his own weapon, the shillalah, when he said: "It's a weapon which never misses fire." But then it may be said that it applies itself more directly to the head than to the heart. I think I have a very capital theory of what an after-dinner speech should be; we have had some examples this afternoon and I have made a great ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... I had a shillalah wid a sucker on the ind of it, it's milk her I wud, widout anny loss of me color, though she thritened me wid twinty horns ...
— The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington |
