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" I only intended to present you with some phases of outward life and manners — such things as would strike or interest a stranger in our beloved Gotham, and in the places to which regular Gothamites — American cockneys, so to speak — are wont to... "
Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire - Page 53
by Thoroton Society - 1900
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The Upper Ten Thousand: Sketches of American Society

Charles Astor Bristed - 1852 - 304 pages
...political, religious, or literary, of the great people among whom I am a small unit. I only intended to present you with some phases of outward life and...Gothamites — American cockneys, so to speak — are wont to repair. For I am but a cockney in my own country ; I have never travelled far in it. — good...
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The Upper Ten Thousand: Sketches of American Society

Charles Astor Bristed - 1852 - 300 pages
...political, religious, or literary, of the great people among whom I am a small unit. I only intended to present you with some phases of outward life and...Gothamites — American cockneys, so to speak — are wont to repair. For I am but a cockney in my own country ; I have never travelled far in it, — good...
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The Upper Ten Thousand: Sketches of American Society

Charles Astor Bristed - 1852 - 312 pages
...am a small unit. I only intended to present you with some phases of outward life and manners—such things as would strike or interest a stranger in our...beloved Gotham, and in the places to which regular Gothamites—American cockneys, so to speak—are wont to repair. For I am but a cockney in my own...
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded ...

John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 pages
...you. — Dow's Sermons. GOTHAMITES. The people of the city of New York ; the New Yorkers. I intended to present you with some phases of outward life and...Gothamites — American cockneys, so to speak — are wont to repair. — Skstches of American Socisty, Frazer's Magazme. GOUGE. A cheat, fraud, robbery....
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged, Volume 19

John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 578 pages
...yon. — Dow's Sermons. GOTHAMITES. The people of the city of New York ; the New Yorkers. I intended to present you with some phases of outward life and...Gothamites — American cockneys, so to speak — are wont to repair. — Sketches of American Sockty, Frazer's Magazine. GOUGE. A cheat, fraud, robbery....
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded ...

John Russell Bartlett - 1860 - 568 pages
...yon. — Dow's Sermons. GOTHAMITES. The people of the city of New York ; the New Yorkers. I intended to present you with some phases of outward life and...interest a stranger in our beloved Gotham, and in the v places to which regular Gothamites — American cockneys, so to speak — are wont to repair. —...
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Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way ...

Eliezer Edwards - 1881 - 668 pages
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American ..., Volume 1

Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland - 1889 - 578 pages
...called "Cockneys." First so called by Irving, about 1805. I intend to present you with some phases of life and manners — such things as would strike or...Gothamites — American Cockneys, so to speak — are wont to repair. — Prastr's Magazine : Sketches of A mtHcan Society. Got him down close and fine (American)....
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American ..., Volume 1

Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland - 1889 - 568 pages
...by Irving, about 1805. 1 intend to present you with some phases of life and manners — such thing:* as would strike or interest a stranger in our beloved Gotham, and in the places to which regular Gothamitts — American Cockneys, so to speak — are wont to repair. — Frasirs Magazine : Shetches...
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