Hotspur's picture of this "popinjay" with pouncet-box in hand, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare] Reference
Might Hooper and Seidler have considered making Logue do the "popinjay" speech by. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"Look who's talking, you undernourished popinjay.". From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
As it is, that fool -- that popinjay, almost guessed. From Wordnik.com. [Adrien Leroy] Reference
OpEdNews - Article: Galloway and Canada: Who's the popinjay?. From Wordnik.com. [Galloway and Canada: Who's the popinjay?] Reference
"I cannot imagine she got the run around from popinjay Hitchens". From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
'Not prinking English popinjay families with too much bloody money.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
That said, I cannot imagine she got the run around from popinjay Hitchens. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Two only of those who followed in order succeeded in hitting the popinjay. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
From the peacock popinjay bravely born who turned up his noble nose with scorn. From Wordnik.com. [I Have A Song To Sing, O] Reference
That I have become a vain old popinjay, thriving on the adulation of the crowds?. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
And yet, even with such a popinjay as Lord Rufford, he himself felt the lordship. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
Yet this lackwit popinjay is supposed to prove that black folks can be president?. From Wordnik.com. [Glenn Loury and John McWhorter on McCain and Obama at the Saddleback Civil Forum.] Reference
Brenhilda allows more license than she is wont to do to yonder chattering popinjay. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
Inwardly, I snarled at the little popinjay, but I kept my eyes down and my tongue still. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Squire's honest pride stirring her veins, "I think I will not run away from the popinjay.". From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
"Until Sir Dragonfly strikes me," he said, "for at that I shall kill the popinjay without mercy.". From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
And this magnificent, absurd creature -- this mouthing, grimacing, attitudinising popinjay, thought. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
They threw themselves upon the poor cats, and shot them with arquebuses as men shoot at the popinjay. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Why should Cameron "be smarting" over the utterances of a twice discredited popinjay like Barton Mandelson?. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
What colossal nerve of this popinjay to begin believing a PR flack's creation ... to even THINK of the presidency. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Sachs: Happy Birthday, Dad: My Father's Greatest Hits] Reference
"I'll see you hanged from the yard-arm yet, you white-livered wharf-rats, and you, too, you cabin-window popinjay!". From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
He has become an aristocrat of aristocrats, a popinjay, a silken dandy, like most of the young nobles at this court. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
Nor is it written: "Pay princely commissions to any perfumed popinjay who can open the door to this mystical kingdom.". From Wordnik.com. [Mad Men] Reference
If I had had it in my power, I would have left the carriage; for I was in no frame of mind to be pestered by a popinjay. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
I would go up to the Yankee outpost, and if some popinjay of a tacky officer didn't come along, we would have a good time. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Posing as a languid popinjay by day and ridding the cactus of tyrants by night, he's a most delightful sort of Scarlet Pimpernel. From Wordnik.com. [Banderas' Zorro-in-Training Sweats, Swashes] Reference
When I went back to the hall to claim her I found I was too late: she was dancing with a young popinjay of Collingwood's regiment. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Thesis B depicts him as a popinjay dictator who kills people, locks up judges, censors the media and runs a brutal fascist party, the MQM. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Jenkins: Meddling in Pakistan] Reference
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