A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly worked into the body of our thoughts, lights us a step further into the heart of this rough but noble universe.
But, in this measure of abolishing the slave trade, the canting Saints, with Wilberforce at their head, joined them with as great an avidity as they supported every measure to curtail the rights and liberties of the people at home.
It was but yesterday I had before me a glaring specimen of the sort of canting hypocrisy which is the object of my censure.
The Ministers argued strenuously for the appointment of a parliamentary commission, in which they were joined by the artful and cunning suggestions and canting palaver of Mr. Wilberforce.
Captain Duncan finished his remarks by a decided expression of his disapproval of the canting regulation phrases so frequently employed by religious people, which are perfectly nauseous to men of the world.
During the whole evening not a canting word nor a false tone had been uttered.
It looked to me as if yonder canting preacher either was taken with a fit, or sought to make ending here of two papists.
Even a large picture is lost in that canting place--what a drop of water in the ocean is a Miniature.
And therefore, in the name of dulness, be The well-hung Balaam and cold Caleb free: And canting Nadab let oblivion damn, Who made new porridge for the paschal lamb.
I would rather see men pound each other for a fat purse than play the canting Pharisee to promote their political fortunes.
I have no fear of his acceptance on the right hand up there where men are judged by their deeds and not by semblance of better things that a cantingworld may simulate.
Making the Texas people pay for an abortive little second-term gubernatorial boom is one of them, and canting hypocrisy by sensation-seeking preachers is another.
He threw the helmet with a clatter on to the table as if it had been the knave's canting head.
He has never in his life read the Bible; he believes all the priests and the canting bigots tell him; it is therefore no wonder he goes astray.
He has intellect; he is reasonable, and there is no canting bigotry about him.
In the canting lingo it meant store or ware house, as well as a dwelling house.
A small can: also, in thecanting sense, the plague.
The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit passes, pretending to be sailors shipwrecked on the neighbouring coast, and on their way to the port from whence they sailed.
Also, according to the canting academy, the gallows.
The nick name of the chief rendzvous of the canting crew of beggars, gypsies, cheats, thieves, &c.
Lice: perhaps an abbreviation of chattels, lice being the chief live stock of chattels of beggars, gypsies, and the rest of the canting crew.
The name of one of the principal rogues of the canting crew.
Also to throw away or hide: thus a highwayman who throws away or hides any thing with which he robbed, to prevent being known or detected, is, in the canting lingo, styled a Dinger.
The third old rank of the canting crew, mighty thieves, like Robin Hood.
The tenth order of the canting tribe, who not only rob, but beat, and often murder passenges.
The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words: MEN.
To faggot in the canting sense, means to bind: an allusion to the faggots made up by the woodmen, which are all bound.
A jail bird, a person used to be kept in a cage; also, in the canting sense, guineas.
To chop, in thecanting sense, means making dispatch, or hurrying over any business: ex.
For then the devils do their best, and drive a subtle trade, and the tribe of canting dissemblers come out of their holes.
He said that in rising to the surface to find out the state of things there the submersible came up directly under the barge, canting it in such a way that I was rolled out and he caught me as I was swept close to the opening.
Another huge vessel takes her place, canting in at the north end, and shortly sending out more men to the already congested landing.
For her there could be no movement, no canting on the tide and heading under steam for the open sea: the distant ships of the Grand Fleet held her in fetters at the pier.
We back out into the river, bring up, then come ahead, canting to a rudder pressure that sheers us into the fairway.
If they'd stopcanting about 'honest work' they might begin to get somewhere.
But no, who should it be to see us but that canting Baptist, Solby!
Who should be in the smack but Solby, the canting Baptist, who was no friend to you, or my uncle, or any of us.
Hereupon Mr. Ward struck his cane smartly on the floor, and, looking severely at my brother, bade him beware how he did justify these canting and false pretenders.
They affect a cloudy and canting style, as if to keep themselves from being confuted by keeping themselves from being understood.
He sang of Imperialism as it was, or was about to be--vulgar and canting and bloody--and a world that was preparing itself for an Imperialism that would be vulgar and canting and bloody bade him welcome.
With respect to ropery,--the word seems to have been deemed unworthy of a place in our early dictionaries, and was probably coined in the mint of the slang or canting crew.
Por Dios, Senor; it is not to be wondered at that the canting heretico stood no chance in that game-- had it been played fairly.
The sudden canting of the ship had made the deck no place for running on; I had to find some new way of escape, and that upon the instant, for my foe was almost touching me.
Who should be in the smack but Solby, the canting Baptist, who was no friend to you or my uncle, or any of us.
