Beevor, I'll thank you to postpone the singing of your squibfor the election; or take to the street when our business is over, and give it to the crowd.
Others were whistling or humming some favorite air; and one of them, a poet, was reading a squib which he had prepared for the forthcoming election.
The bard with many an artful fib Had in imagination fenced him, Disproved the arguments of Squib And all that Groom could urge against him.
A squib is simply an igniter to start the fuel burning.
It's a simple solid-fuel rocket with star grain, fired by a squib that is commanded from the ground.
There was a little popular squib let off this week, in a motion of Sir John Glynne's, seconded by Sir John Philips, for annual parliaments.
Poor Squib tripped, by good luck, and fell as the bird passed over him.
They should be of white or coloured double-crown paper, rolled dry on the squib former, and secured at the edge with paste in the usual way.
Charge with the squib funnel and wire; and prime the mouth with very slightly damped meal.
The squib did not burn out without one final detonation.
This is the fictitious name assumed by Ulrich von Hutten, the author of a political squib at that period.
Footnote 15: Means Hoejack, which was adopted by Ulrich von Hutten as a characteristic title of a political squib in defence of the peasantry.
To preserve decorum, only lemonade and ginger-beer shall be drunk during the illuminations, and fireworks shall henceforth be restricted to one squib and a couple of crackers to each houseboat.
And if you have fireworks, don't sort them out with the light of a blazing squib or some illuminant of a similar character.
I refused, and said that Cornelius was your property, and if I sent him an occasional squib it should be on no account under that title.
But the squib is run to the end of the rope: room for the prodigy of valour.
When his zeal takes fire it cracks and flies about like a squib until the idle stuff is spent, and then it goes out of itself.
Then home and dined with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard from his master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in his lawsuit with Squib about his house and office.
Scarcely a week went by that some apparently venomous squib or fling or long burlesque assault did not appear either in the Union or the Enterprise, with one of those jokers as its author and another as its target.
In a squib in the Alta he retaliated: Mark Twain has killed the Mexican oyster.
The story had circulated among the camps, and a well-known journalist, named Samuel Seabough, had already made a squibof it, but neither Clemens nor Gillis had ever happened to hear it before.
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog"--a squib which would never have been written but to please Artemus Ward, and then it reached New York too late to appear in his book.
Thursday, and Friday morning Galignani's Messenger had a squib about it.
While we were at dinner, one of the nine going out of their window crept under ours, and threw a squib right along our table.
The young Duke appointed Lord Squib master of the ceremonies, and gave orders for nothing but constant excitement.
I must get Squib to run down to Brighton for me: and Afy, poor dear Afy, I think she will be sorry when she hears it all!
While they were thus whiling away their time, Lord Squib proposed a visit to the theatre, which he had ordered to be lit up.
If the old physicians are correct in considering from twenty-five to thirty-five as the period of lusty youth, Lord Squib was still a lusty youth, though a very corpulent one indeed.
Her virtue was only equalled by her discretion; but, as the odds were equal, Lord Squib betted on the last.
Annesley with the Duchess, andSquib with the Duke at écarté.
Sir Lucius looked blue, but he had hedged; and Lord Squib looked yellow, but some doubted.
They were excessively amused with the properties; and Lord Squib proposed they should dress themselves.
It is even said that Lord Squib was sentimental; but this must have been the malice of Charles Annesley.
Squib whispered Annesley, that Sir Lucius O'Trigger might appear in character, but was prudent enough to suppress the joke.
At last Lord Squibannounced that he had discovered them by a new glass, and described them as a couple of diamond-claws most exquisitely finished.
Burton, however, was justly indignant on account of his not having been invited to the conference, and his revenge took the shape of a pungent squib which he wrote on his card and left in the Congress Room.
It does not appear that Steevens claimed the Alphabet; which may have suggested the celebrated squib that appeared in the "New Whig Guide," and was popularly attributed to Mr. Croker.
Equally acceptable for its rarity would be a squib on Mrs. Piozzi without a reference to the brewery.
