Dutch flummery is made by boiling two ounces of isinglass in three half-pints of water very gently for half an hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference
Now have I not given you a fine feast of homage, -- "flummery" Mr. Hawthorne calls it?. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
This flummery is too much; but every body with whom. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828] Reference
All this flummery was, as we all know, meaningless. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-22] Reference
But still.... flummery is nice, but truckle is even better. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
He had endured the flummery, the foolery, and he had failed. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Regiment]
That way, they could all do their hocus-pocus funeral flummery. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
Lots of gardens, plenty of story and a touch of flummery:perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Scrappy* Blogaversary « Fairegarden] Reference
"I'm going to dress and put an end to this Hobson-Jobson flummery!". From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
The flummery about executing master warrants turns out to be just that. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)] Reference
Quirky, enormously opinionated, wickedly funny, and ever wary of flummery. From Wordnik.com. [The Hangover Artist] Reference
This was precisely the type of superstitious flummery he was leaving behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Obama is a triumph of Sixth form flummery and feelgood rhetoric over substance. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
Readers will no doubt think that this is official flummery; and so in fact it is. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography] Reference
Buttered wheat, and Pistachios, or fistic Chestnut and wal - flummery.nuts. nuts. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Meanwhile, he goes out with panache and his usual ability to see through flummery. From Wordnik.com. [Exit Music by Ian Rankin: Book summary] Reference
"Bosh!" cried Bob, who did not believe much in sentiment, ` flummery 'he termed it. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
"I shall be free for a while," she said, "of all the absurd flummery of the palace.". From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Obviously his protestations about furthering their acquaintance had been mere flummery. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
Pakistan's flummery ensures the long-term failure of U.S. efforts in the entire AfPak region. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Must Confront Deep-Seated Problems in Pakistan] Reference
Now, as to your phalansteries and women's clubs and sitz-baths, why that's all flummery to me. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
Oh – where you see flummery I see sweetness in subtle flavours, where you are dulled and grey. From Wordnik.com. [Flummery For Tea (rev)] Reference
I have been finding so many sites full of flummery and purile stuff I was beginning to give up. From Wordnik.com. [Wedding Story Contest] Reference
Behind all the flummery, he is a shrewd and thoughtful man, which could make him a decent mayor. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
In those words he compromised with his instinctive dislike of titles and flummery of that nature. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
And to get teachers talking, even on background, about their anger and frustration at this flummery?. From Wordnik.com. [David Simon: The Wire's Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed] Reference
This is all art-school flummery from hacks suspended between their egotism and their lack of talent. From Wordnik.com. [Artcrimes, or: This is NOT OK] Reference
All the amulets, charms, gree-grees, fetiches and flummery of the prince were duly bestowed at his sides. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
And stop the presses: The end to the egregious flummery of these ink-stained wretches has yet to be written. From Wordnik.com. [Shattered Glass Is Quietly Shocking] Reference
She was too old for Aunt Grobigatail's honey flummery, but a taste of honey always whetted her appetite for more. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
And if you say it is, you are lying or using trickery and flummery and I will have you exposed and punished for it. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Married]
His dependence on this word often seems to lead Cannadine to confound flummery and policy, and also ends and means. From Wordnik.com. [A Bit of Bunting] Reference
Fortunately, nature transcends all this flummery and sets its sights unimaginably higher that the mere lesser of the evils. From Wordnik.com. [Survival of the fittest is not the lesser of the evils.] Reference
In the midst of all the satin and lace flummery, it is pathetic to suffer in silence for the lack of a little beggarly hot water. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
That genlmn at fust answered him quite short and angry: but, after a little more flummery, he grew as pleased as posbill, took in all. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush] Reference
But ribbon on sandwiches is an anachronism -- so is all the flummery of silk and laces, doilies and doo-dads that so often bewilder us. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
Mali: Tot is prepared by putting a thick flummery in roughly three lifers of boiling water and stirring steadily to obtain a firm mass. From Wordnik.com. [3. Conditions of Acceptance for Solar Cookers] Reference
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