It was the familiar cant of the man rich enough to affect disdain for money, and Wade was not impressed.
Off on Square-hole," replied the boss, with a sideways cant of his head to show direction.
I know not what the venerable old sucker in the pulpit wuz a goin to say, but ef he kin look over this section uv the heritage, and cant preach a elokent sermon on that text, he aint much on the preach.
I protest agin any violation uv good faith, but labor must be done, for the skripter commands it, and our frail nature demands wat cant be got without it.
But to hear how the Company did cheer at this Mouthing, albeit it was the veriest Cant and Stuff; for, good Lack!
You can understand, cant you, how all this starts a great deal of gossip about him, and gets repeated until even good friends get set against him?
He says he has no vices and is very economical, but that theres one extravagance he cant afford and yet cant resist; and that is dressing his wife prettily.
I know it's unreasonable; I cant explain; but I had such a strong instinct that you would cure him.
You cant go out to dinner now without your neighbor bragging to you of some useless operation or other.
Every fool can get ill; but every fool cant be a good doctor: there are not enough good ones to go round.
I cant keep always bothering you for money, money, money.
I cant tell you, Ridgeon, how ashamed I am of dragging my miserable poverty to your dinner after all your kindness.
I cant pass the shops without wrestling with the temptation to go in and order all the really good things they have for you.
I used to read the medical papers at first; but you know how soon a man drops that; besides, I cant afford them; and what are they after all but trade papers, full of advertisements?
We cant all go to St Moritz or to Egypt, you know, Sir Ralph.
Tha cant get me mad this mornin soa its noa use to try, an' tha'd better save thi wind to blow thi porridge when tha gets hooam.
I am now going to tell you the horrible and wretched plaege (plague) that my multiplication gives me you cant conceive it the most Devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itself cant endure.
Let earnest Puritanism die; let decent Formalism, whatsoever cant it be or grow to, live!
We do not seek, in the cantlanguage of the day, to force slavery on an unwilling people.
It is alone a sufficient reply to the cantof demagogues and the ravings of conscience-stricken fanatics, over the falsely-called "Rebel barbarities.
A cant phrase for a footman in livery, in allusion to the various colours of his clothes--also said of a master tailor.
A cant phrase for a stupid fellow; a man who has not a word to say for himself.
There is a cant of shallowness and fanaticism which misunderstands and denies this.
This phrase was a kind of cant with my mother and her set, which expressed in brief that a lady was enormously rich and a very desirable match for a man with nothing.
The cant of the day ordained the twenty-fifth of December the "hottest day of the year.
Addison was not a man on whom such cant of sensibility could make much impression.
It is pleasant to remark how soon Pope learned the cant of an author, and began to treat criticks with contempt, though he had yet suffered nothing from them.
There is no homage so mean as not to gratify the pride of those to whom dominion is new; and these expressions are so often and so strangely applied, that it is not surprizing they are become the cant phrases of the mob.
But to cheat, and cant to help you a doin' of it, is horrid, that's a fact.
It is a cant term we have, and signifies 'going out for wool and coming back shorn.
Nothing but cant led you to join temperance societies.
First and foremost they have got a great many cant terms, and you can judge a good deal from them.
Mr. Migley owned a number of trotting-horses, and his conversation was always flavored with the cant of the stable.
Next day he noted this conclusion in his memorandum-book: "Strong cant wait much longer.
I cant begin to tell jest where we went or what we see, enough 'tennyrate I felt to last me through life, but time hurried on jest as usual and brought the last days of our stay here.
Josiah sez snappishly, "What you mean by bringin' that old chestnut up I cant see.
They think that a good word is as much the result of inspiration as is a successful begging trick; and they believe, furthermore, that America is entitled to a cant language of its own.
Yes, because the destruction of that doctrine will do away with all cant and all pretence.
It is the sheerestcant to pretend that they are endeavoring to protect art.
This is a common cant with poor deluded girls, who are not aware that they themselves make their fate by their folly, and then complain there is no resisting it.
But they were made with a general reference to a hypocritical cant much in vogue at that time, and long before.
