It is considered the inalienable right of the opposition to heckle the speaker and to hurl questions at him which are calculated to spoil his arguments.
A few Southern sympathizers who attempted to heckle the speakers were quickly shouted down[961].
In nearly all, Northern partisans were present, attempted to hecklethe speakers, and usually presented amendments to the address which were voted down.
To brawl at public meetings"--Rhona wondered whether she had heard of her own baulked attempt to heckle the Bishops at the Guildhall Banquet?
The heckle teeth of this machine do not stand perpendicularly, but are bent somewhat backwards; so as to retain the flax more firmly.
When the plate metal is bent into the form of a shield, it is slipped on to the branches of the heckle frames, and is sufficiently elastic to hold fast.
These ribs are placed at small distances apart round the barrels, all the heckle points standing radially from the axes, and the barrels are mounted upon axles supported by pedestals, with plummer blocks bearing on the rails of the end frames.
The coarse heckle is furnished with teeth about one tenth of an inch thick, one and a quarter of an inch long, and tapering from the middle into a very fine point.
The upper guide rail above mentioned, upon which the heckle bars slide, is shown at g, in fig.
Janet contemptuously, for she thought that her husband might easily have hit it, and she threw her heckle at it.
Stewart was accustomed, in his own personal dealings from day to day, to cut people short when they tried to heckle with him.
He was a hedge unto his friends, A heckle to his foes, lady, And every one that did him wrang, 55 He took him by the nose, lady.
Cry 'Hurrah for the canny red heckle, The heckle that tackled them a'!
They may heckle him in order to force him to come out on his intentions about the graft, and the eight-hour day, and the enforcement of the law, but they don't doubt his honesty.
Let 'em write; let 'em ask questions in the papers; let 'em heckle you on the stump.
Look here," saidHeckle gruffly, "I want a word with you.
I came, knowing that if Heckle saw me he would carry out his threat.
Young Heckle slunk away, and Lord Stansford turned to Miss Linderham, who stood looking on, speechless with horror and surprise.
Heckle turned away, and Lord Stansford, after standing there for a moment, wandered back to the middle room.
Heckle was a young man of about the same age as Lord Stansford, and he also was seemingly on the look-out for some one among the arriving guests.
Did you see the late scuffle between the unfortunate Heckle and myself?
His teeth were clinched, and taking one quick step forward, he smote Heckle fair between the two eyes and felled him to the ground.
Young Heckle picked himself up, cursing under his breath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heckle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
