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"Bilk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... good company in a Tavern (the Bedlam of wits) where men are mad rather than merry; here one breaking a jest on the Drawer, or a Candlestick; there another repeating the old end of a Play, or some bawdy song; this speaking bilk, that nonsense, whilst all with loud houting and laughter confound the Fidlers noise, who may well be call'd a noise indeed, for no Musick can be heard for them; so whilst he utters nothing but old stories, long since laught thridbare, or some stale ...
— Essays on Wit No. 2 • Richard Flecknoe and Joseph Warton
... up; neither they nor their trainers. The whole meeting, in fact, was what is vulgarly called a bilk. But ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... a little better brand of tobacco we might have drifted into some sense of responsibility for the honor I had conferred on her. But as time went on I began to hunger for the sight of a real lady standing before me in a street-car. All I was staying in that land of bilk and money for was because I couldn't get away, and I thought it no more than decent to stay and ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry |
Words linked to "Bilk" : foreclose, cheat, deprive, disappoint, queer, forestall, frustrate, baffle, cross, escape, spoil, preclude, evade, ruin, forbid, break loose, thwart, let down, scotch |
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