Mr. Flummery Flum represents political economy, and the picture of him betrays Disraeli's contempt for that once celebrated science, now relegated to the exterior planets.
But Mr. Flummery Flum was a prophet in his day and led the believers into strange places.
Yet somehow she managed to make all this flummery and curliness impressive; in her heart she hoped the adjective "queenly" was applied to her, and it was!
You may use the juice of fresh strawberries or raspberries, stirred in while the flummery is hot, but not boiled afterwards.
Wet some moulds with cold water; put in the flummery and set it on ice or in a very cold place to congeal.
Flummery may be coloured green by boiling in the last milk, spinach juice extracted by pounding in a mortar some raw spinach, or some pistachio nuts.
Put the flummery into a blancmange mould, set it on ice, and turn it out when wanted for dinner.
Rice flummery may be flavoured by boiling in the first pint of milk a stick of cinnamon and a handful of bitter almonds or peach-kernels all broken up.
Oh, but surely if we have to call ourselves Wurzel-Flummery it would count as earned income.
And I have told Robert my opinion that he should have no difficulty in making the name of Wurzel-Flummery as famous as he has already made that of Crawshaw.
Mr. Wurzel-Flummery in a few well-chosen words seconded the motion.
How can we discuss a name like Wurzel-Flummery seriously?
As a matter of fact, Wurzel-Flummery is a very good old name.
Our hopes were realized to the following extent: Wurzel-Flummery was produced by Mr. Dion Boucicault at the New Theatre in April, 1917.
Well, I'm going to be Miss Wurzel-Flummery anyhow, darling.
I know that this is a superficial judgment in both ways, for Oxford does manage to keep pace with the utilitarian spirit, and at the same time preserve lots of her flummery unchanged.
There is a great deal of flummery about Oxford, but I think if I were an Oxonian, in spite of my radicalism generally, I might vote against all change there.
The little philosopher with whom he had conversed at Lady Spirituelle's, and who, being a friend of Flummery Flam, had now obtained a place under Government, invented the most condemning evidence.
The Government had the highest confidence in Flummery Flam, because Flummery Flam served to divert the public thoughts.
A public instructor jumped up in the person of Mr. Flummery Flam, the least insinuating and the least plausible personage that ever performed the easy task of gulling a nation.
Keep the flummery stirring all the time, pour it into a bason, stir it till half cold, let it settle, and then put it into a melon shape.
When it becomes as thick as cream, wet the melon mould, and put the flummery into it.
When cold, turn the flummery into a dish, and serve with cream, milk, or custard round.
When boiled enough, pour the flummery into a shallow dish, and serve it up.
Either their creeds are intellectual flummery or they are the solution to the riddles with which the world is struggling.
One cannot say "God" but some tout is instantly seeking to pluck one into his particular cave of flummeryand orthodoxy.
Here poor Lady Fanny Flummery would have been sadly to seek, for her characters, though noble, were moral, and her pen was wielded on the side of Church and State.
Besides, I do not know where that land lies, the land of the old Fashionable Novel, the Kor of which Thackeray's Lady Fanny Flummery is the Ayesha.
What is Gyp but a Lady Fanny Flummery reussie,--Lady Fanny with the trifling additional qualities of wit and daring?
