A fugleman for the radical right. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A vote of thanks to the government, and three times three cheers, with Mr. Cobden as "fugleman," ended the great Peace Congress of 1849. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
Besides the old "fugleman", there were several other patriarchs, who now advanced into the water to perform the office of fishermen. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting] Reference
When I looked round, I saw that treacherous villain, Hunsden acting as fugleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
The glasses and mugs are filled, and then the fugleman strikes up the old sea-song. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
Bellston was as shy, or rather as averse, as any of the tenantry themselves, to acting the part of fugleman. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
Placing himself in the front, like a fugleman to the ape-company, he went through a variety of manœuvres with a. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Imám, artistes or fugleman, lit. “one who stands before others;” and his bows and prostrations give the time to the congregation. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
‘One cheer more,’ screamed the little fugleman in the balcony, and out shouted the mob again, as if lungs were cast – iron, with steel works. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
I was again placed near the fugleman of fashion (for to his movements were all eyes directed: and his sanction determined the accuracy of all conduct). From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827] Reference
The week before last when Mr. Stacpoole's harriers met there was a crowd assembled of men on foot and on horseback, and the huntsman was ordered by the fugleman of the mob to go home. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Apart from the emergence of some promising sculptors, almost the only change was in Graham Sutherland — fugleman of postwar British painting — whose performance had a new zest and edge to it. From Wordnik.com. [Tragedian] Reference
David Brooks, as loyal an administration fugleman as you will find, asks, Would it be illegal for more people on the left to actually be happy that a story slurring Americans may turn out to be unproven?. From Wordnik.com. [rotten fruit] Reference
When "Washington Irving and American Literature" was propounded by the fugleman at the elbow of H.R.H., the cheering was vociferously hearty and cordial, and the interest and curiosity to see and hear Geoffrey. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
My two companions in misfortune were similarly affected, and there we sat, three sane and ordinary men, feverishly going through all these itching movements with FUSSELL as our detested, but unconscious fugleman. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892] Reference
But how much better than the barren triumph of being the unconscious fugleman of so glittering a popularity must have been the sense of being one of the first that ever burst from our rude island upon that secluded little. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
In such conditions the war seemed as great a folly as my sham leadership a crime; and, sending for our sheikhs, I was about to resign myself and my pretensions into their puzzled hands, when the fugleman announced a train. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
A sort of police officer or fugleman officiated here, as at Fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter] Reference
Led by a fugleman in the first brake, they started -- singing it in fine harmonies. From Wordnik.com. [Nicky-Nan, Reservist] Reference
I myself acting as fugleman, and the tidings sped down the column on the wings of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865] Reference
Several times was Anthony obliged to stand forth like a fugleman and repeat the sign, and each time. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
'One cheer more,' screamed the little fugleman in the balcony, and out shouted the mob again, as if lungs were cast-iron, with steel works. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
A vote of thanks to the government, and three times three cheers, with Mr. Cobden as “fugleman,” ended the great Peace Congress of 1849. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe]
As with the Marquesans to-day, they had a fugleman, or leader, in all songs, who introduced the subject in a prologue, and occasionally gave the cue to a change. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Suddenly, at a signal from their fugleman, they all dropped down on their knees and began to creep towards the cavern, rubbing their noses every now and then on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Twice Lost] Reference
The only thing was, that Bourhope was so disturbed and so distracted in his mind that he could not attend to orders, and lost his character as a yeoman, and all chance of being future fugleman to his corps. From Wordnik.com. [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference
Then in an instant the lower rigging became black with the figures of the men, and, with Collins as fugleman, they greeted our unexpected return with three as hearty cheers as ever pealed from the throats of. From Wordnik.com. [The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron] Reference
I thought I made out a slender figure, cloaked and masked -- a woman's it might be but I could not be certain and beside it a couple of sturdy fellows, who kept apart from the herd and well behind their fugleman. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolf; a romance] Reference
Scot was a pioneer and fugleman of the niceties. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
"Tidies and fugleman -- I sheel foor that we all -- er -- most steeply rebut the defensible, though, I trust, lavatory. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
Carlyle, writes one of his oldest friends, "may be likened to a fugleman; he stood up in the front of Life's Battle and showed in word and action his notion of the proper attitude and action of men. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
Again Mr. Silk was fugleman. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference
Nassau crowd lacked a fugleman. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference
Denis, was the fugleman also of a combination. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)] Reference
But before them, as bandmaster and fugleman, ran. From Wordnik.com. [The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby] Reference
Slackbridge acted as fugleman, and gave the time. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Times]
Southern liberties! "shouted the fugleman. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference
"You are fit to act fugleman to the British army. From Wordnik.com. [The Madman and the Pirate] Reference
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