No kickshaw ditties, favourites with national enemies, but ... genuine George the Third home brewed, exhorting him (as 'my brave boys') to reduce to a smashed condition all other islands but this island, and all continents, peninsulas, isthmuses, promontories, and other geographical forms of land soever, besides sweeping the sea in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
Great Cumberland's Duke, with some kickshaw or other?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
The little tiny kickshaw that Mither sent tae me. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference
O the little tiny kickshaw that Mither sent tae me. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference
French taste? it's like enough, for it's all kickshaw work. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World] Reference
Andover, knowing her, imagined that she had been refused some kickshaw, and thought no more about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century] Reference
"We aren't got enough to eat in the fo'c's'le, sir, an 'we wants our proper' lowance o 'meat, instead of a lot of rotten kickshaw marmalade!". From Wordnik.com. [Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea] Reference
Mr. Whitelaw's notion of tea was a solid meal, which left him independent of the chances of supper, and yet open to do something in that way; in case any light kickshaw, such as liver and bacon, a boiled sheep's head, or a beef-steak pie, should present itself to his notice. From Wordnik.com. [Fenton's Quest] Reference
"That's a kickshaw in which my chef takes particular pride. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
Are these no sacrifices? is it nothing to have converted my ancestors 'large estate in Thames Street into warehouses, and emigrated westward to be confined in one of your kickshaw cages in Tavistock Square?. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
"What," cried the Captain with a sneer, "I suppose this may be in your French taste? it's like enough, for it's all kickshaw work. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
“What,” cried the Captain with a sneer, “I suppose this may be in your French taste? it’s like enough, for it’s all kickshaw work. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina] Reference
A simple kickshaw by your Persian cook. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
I'll build the kickshaw for them gratis. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914] Reference
In proof of which, he sang to Mr. Sapsea that evening, no kickshaw ditties, favourites with national enemies, but gave him the genuine George the Third home-brewed; exhorting him (as 'my brave boys') to reduce to a smashed condition all other islands but this island, and all continents, peninsulas, isthmuses, promontories, and other geographical forms of land soever, besides sweeping the seas in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
In proof of which, he sang to Mr. Sapsea that evening, no kickshaw ditties, favourites with national enemies, but gave him the genuine George the Third home-brewed; exhorting him (as "my brave boys ') to reduce to a smashed condition all other islands but this island, and all continents, peninsulas, isthmuses, promontories, and other geographical forms of land soever, besides sweeping the seas in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
In proof of which, he sang to Mr. Sapsea that evening, no kickshaw ditties, favourites with national enemies, but gave him the genuine George the Third home – brewed; exhorting him (as ‘my brave boys’) to reduce to a smashed condition all other islands but this island, and all continents, peninsulas, isthmuses, promontories, and other geographical forms of land soever, besides sweeping the seas in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
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