"Bilk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... good company in a Tavern (the Bedlam of wits) where men are mad rather than merry; here one breaking a jest on the Drawer, or a Candlestick; there another repeating the old end of a Play, or some bawdy song; this speaking bilk, that nonsense, whilst all with loud houting and laughter confound the Fidlers noise, who may well be call'd a noise indeed, for no Musick can be heard for them; so whilst he utters nothing but old stories, long since laught thridbare, or some stale ...
— Essays on Wit No. 2 • Richard Flecknoe and Joseph Warton
... up; neither they nor their trainers. The whole meeting, in fact, was what is vulgarly called a bilk. But ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... a little better brand of tobacco we might have drifted into some sense of responsibility for the honor I had conferred on her. But as time went on I began to hunger for the sight of a real lady standing before me in a street-car. All I was staying in that land of bilk and money for was because I couldn't get away, and I thought it no more than decent to stay and ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... slight lapse into jocularity, in concession to his audience)—"for one night honly"—that's your direction, unless you look out. (With virtuous indignation.) 'Ere are you—calling yourself a gentleman, and old enough to know better—riding in this man's keb, and trying to bilk him out of his money. Why, you ought to be ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 • Various
... In the Westcote narrative (1780) Lyttelton explains the dream by his having lately been in a room with a lady, Mrs. Dawson, when a robin flew in. Yet, in the same narrative, Lyttelton says on Saturday morning "that he was very well, and believed he should bilk the ghost". He was certainly in bed at the time of the experience, and probably could not be sure whether he was awake ...
— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang
... began) are you playing me false? Have you set another man on the track with a view to bilk me of my promised fee? Explain, or I throw ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
