Churchill was -- didn't go to university, couldn't get in; he was a lisp -- lisper, stutterer. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures] Reference
The latest brain-dead decision (to let their lisper in residence, Jonathan Ross, walk from the corporation) is one which confounds me. From Wordnik.com. [If You Want To Be Safe, Don’t Mention My Birthday… « The Graveyard] Reference
BRIAN LAMB, host: James C. Humes, author of "Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter," I understand from your book that you started off in life as a lisper and a stutterer?. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures] Reference
My only thought was … please don't let him be a lisper. From Wordnik.com. [Knowledge is Power] Reference
"Ah," said the lisper, carelessly; "but can he write poetry, and play proverbes?". From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
The little lisper talked his way to being cut before he played a regular season down last year. From Wordnik.com. [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference
It is recommended for the little lisper, and in former days it was recommended as a sure cure for the hiccoughs. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
I was only pointing out that lisp routines work off of keystrokes so I surmised that a savvy lisper could do it. From Wordnik.com. [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference
Did my little lisper change the message when the little midshipman told her it had been intercepted because too friendly?. From Wordnik.com. [A Confederate Girl's Diary] Reference
“No,” interrupted the pretty lisper¾ “no, Jacintha, I would not be so ungenerous¾I would not deprive you of a lover.”. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
Rupert, with his patent-leather shoes and shining tile, down to the cowardly little lisper, Lew Veazie, they were alike detested. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Reward] Reference
My sweet little lisper informed a select circle of friends the other night, when questioned, that the individual had not called on me, and, what was more, would not do so. From Wordnik.com. [A Confederate Girl's Diary] Reference
Ollie Lord, Chickering, Hull, Skelding, and the others seemed to have been almost deserted by the bees, that were now swarming down upon the hapless lisper, drawn there by the fact that the queen had found lodgment somewhere on Veazie's neck. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Reward] Reference
"So you know me then?" said the lisper: "I see we shall be excellent friends;" and disengaging herself from Lady Harriett, she took my arm, and began discussing persons and things, poetry and china, French plays and music, till I found myself beside her at dinner, and most assiduously endeavouring to silence her by the superior engrossments of. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
He had prim yet fleshy lips, a lisper’s lips, I thought, which he shaped into a little prune of disapproval. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
Only spake the little lisper. From Wordnik.com. [Riley Love-Lyrics] Reference
When each bough is a choral lisper. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
On one another, and each lovely lisper. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
(O my little lisper, was I unjust to you?). From Wordnik.com. [A Confederate Girl's Diary] Reference
(When seated next him) of some pretty lisper. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
The pretty lisper. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
'Do,' cried the lisper, 'Papa,!. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 223] Reference
> A lisper in rehab name of Seth. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Though you travel from Tyre, which is by the sea in the north, to the capital of Edom, which is in the desert south, you will not find a lisper of the Shema, an alms-giver in the Temple, or any one who has ever eaten of the lamb of the Passover, to tell you the kingdom the King is coming to build for us, the children of the covenant, is other than of this world, like our father David's. From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
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