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... the Big Drum says, With 'is "rowdy-dowdy-dow!"— "Kiko kissywarsti don't you hamsher argy jow?" Oh, there's them Injian temples to admire when you see, There's the peacock round the corner an' the monkey up the tree, An' there's that rummy silver grass a-wavin' in the wind, An' the old Grand Trunk a-trailin' like a rifle-sling be'ind. ...
— Barrack-Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling

... gentlemen! Look at you. How can a man be a gentlemen with such a face like that. There are two kinds of men—gentlemen and rummies. I am a gentlemen, you are a rummy. ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page

... some Bowery bum we dragged in, Venex, but that doesn't make any difference to you, does it? He's human—and a robot can't kill anybody! That rummy has a bomb on him tuned to the same frequency as yours, if you don't play ball with us he gets a two-foot ...
— The Velvet Glove • Harry Harrison

... my business. Remember that lah-de-dah bookkeeper rummy? Well, just keep on rememberin' him an' what ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... you stopped to wonder about everything you find rummy in a crib you're cracking, when would you ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon

... Victor 'elps 'im with our Roman Catholicks— He knows an 'eap of Irish songs an' rummy conjurin' tricks; An' the two they works together when it comes to play or pray; So we keep the ball a-rollin' on ten deaths ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling

... it, Tick, tack, tick, tack, on such a devil's dance: Crumbs, it took me quite aback to see her stop so humble, Casting up into my face a sort of shiny glance, Bless you, bless you, that was what I thought I heard her mumble; Lord, a prayer for poor old Bill, a rummy sort of chance! Crumbs, that shiny glance Kinder made me king of all the ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... "Rummy how alike our writing looks," said Dunstable, collecting the sheets and examining them. "You can hardly tell which is which even when you know. Well, there goes three. My watch is slow, as it always is. I'll go ...
— The Politeness of Princes - and Other School Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... and perhaps you'll dream where your father is. Dreams are rummy things, and Nobbles is wanting his sleep, ...
— 'Me and Nobbles' • Amy Le Feuvre

... you get rummy flavours in what you eat down there, if that's so," said Dave. "Surprisin' what the digestions of them city people learn to put up with. Well, I suppose you won't be addin' to their risks by puttin' up much of a dinner for them to-day, Mrs. Brown." ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... Sahib, and I'll give you my word that you shall have no heavy guard put over you.' I thought the best way of getting him was by going at him straight, y'know, and it was, by Jove! The old man gave me his word, and moved about the Fort as contented as a sick crow. He's a rummy chap—always asking to be told where he is and what the buildings about him are. I had to sign a slip of blue paper when he turned up, acknowledging receipt of his body and all that, and I'm responsible, y'know, that he doesn't get away. Queer thing, though, looking after ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... strong odor of cabbage, onions, washing-day, old dinners, and other merely sublunary smells. Their rooms are very ill furnished, and often beset with wash-tubs, swill-pails, mops and soiled clothes; their personal appearance is commonly unclean, homely, vulgar, coarse, and ignorant, and often rummy. Their fee is a quarter or half of a dollar. Sometimes a dollar. Their divination is worked by cutting and dealing cards or studying the palm of your hand. And the things which they tell you are the most silly and shallow babble in the world; a mess of phrases worn out over and ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum

... that seems a rummy thing to you, to care for a woman because she cares for another man. ...
— The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome

... of manifesting himself. One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space ...
— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

... jollier up here. Indeed, I would like to live in a cottage on the moor itself. Fancy what fun it would be to race right out first thing in the morning when you woke up, and see all the creatures waking up too—rabbits scuttering about, and the wild birds, and the frogs, and rummy creatures like that, that live ...
— Miss Mouse and Her Boys • Mrs. Molesworth

... rummy go," exclaimed the gunner, after looking from face to face for the counsel that there was not. "Let's see, my lads; it was just about here as he went forrard, ...
— In the King's Name - The Cruise of the "Kestrel" • George Manville Fenn

... tack, tick, tack, on such a devil's dance: Crumbs, it took me quite aback to see her stop so humble, Casting up into my face a sort of shiny glance, Bless you, bless you, that was what I thought I heard her mumble; Lord, a prayer for poor old Bill, a rummy sort of chance! Crumbs, that shiny glance Kinder made me king of all the sky ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... devil. Then he nearly went to sleep in our study just now. I expect he'll be all right when he wakes up. Rummy business! Conscientious old bargee. You ought to have ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... they have washed off the travel stains of that dusty journey across France, have tidied up, eaten, and slept a little, and have perhaps met friends of the road. You hear, "Hillo—hillo—you here again! met in Simla last, didn't we—wasn't it cold last night?" "By Jingo it was—rummy spell of cold—coming over all western Europe so suddenly," and they talk of "Cold weathers," and "Rains," and "Monsoons," and places you think you heard about in school days and have forgotten; and you realise something of what there is ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... out to hear him blow, Tu-wit, he blew, tu-wee, On rummy pipes o' reeds a-row Their likes I never see; And as he blew he shook a limb And capered like a goat, And us bold lads we looks at him ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 • Various

... turn yer winch, pull in yer line! Brave boys! (Sings out SOLLY) and yer prize you'll na-a-a-il!" Then a rummy thing did 'appen Wich amazed me and the Cap'en; I struck,—but so did that Whale, Brave boys! I ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. March 7, 1891. • Various

... a favourite native poison). "Well, dinner gone and girls gone, and we tired, so best go to bed. Think we all private here now, though in Gold House never can be sure," and he looked round him suspiciously, adding, "rummy place, Gold House, full of all sort of holes made by old fellows thousand year ago, which no one know but Bonsa priests. Still, best risk it and take off your face so that you have decent wash," and he began to unlace the ...
— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard

... RUMMY or RUMY, as applied to women, is simply the Gipsy word romi, a contraction of romni, a wife; the husband ...
— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland

... was all right without him—we didn't want any one else—least of all an odd oddity like this." And though the other boys were loyal to Norah, she certainly suffered a fall in their estimation, and was classed for the moment with the usual run of "girls who do rummy things." ...
— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce

... a terrible name, indeed, Being Timothy Thady Mulligan; And whenever he emptied his tumbler of punch, He'd not rest till he fill'd it full again, The boozing, bruising Irishman, The 'toxicated Irishman— The whiskey, frisky, rummy, gummy, brandy, ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

... Eastern too, but under a different name. It's a misleading term, that. As though one were fighting against booze like an anti-salooner. I actually know of a woman who came West and thought for or a long time that a "booze-fighter" was a "Dry." In the East he is a "rummy" and when ...
— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey

... look much refreshed; they have washed off the travel stains of that dusty journey across France, have tidied up, eaten, and slept a little, and have perhaps met friends of the road. You hear, "Hillo—hillo—you here again! met in Simla last, didn't we—wasn't it cold last night?" "By Jingo it was—rummy spell of cold—coming over all western Europe so suddenly," and they talk of "Cold weathers," and "Rains," and "Monsoons," and places you think you heard about in school days and have forgotten; and you realise something of what there is ahead ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... "No wonder you get rummy flavours in what you eat down there, if that's so," said Dave. "Surprisin' what the digestions of them city people learn to put up with. Well, I suppose you won't be addin' to their risks by puttin' up much of a dinner for them to-day, Mrs. Brown." ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... a caution!" she cried. "And to think of you sitting there saying it! And I reckon they've got a pretty rummy old Pa—if ...
— Nocturne • Frank Swinnerton

... man; it was a gun," said Peter. "Let's forget it. I say—doesn't it feel rummy to be ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture

... to escape, Subadar Sahib, and I'll give you my word that you shall have no heavy guard put over you.' I thought the best way of getting him was by going at him straight, y'know, and it was, by Jove! The old man gave me his word, and moved about the Fort as contented as a sick crow. He's a rummy chap—always asking to be told where he is and what the buildings about him are. I had to sign a slip of blue paper when he turned up, acknowledging receipt of his body and all that, and I'm responsible, y'know, that he doesn't ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... Armstrong, when you see him. He's no end of a chap— all larks. He'll make you roar with his rummy stories." ...
— Roger Ingleton, Minor • Talbot Baines Reed

... here is a rummy go," exclaimed the gunner, after looking from face to face for the counsel that there was not. "Let's see, my lads; it was just about here as he went ...
— In the King's Name - The Cruise of the "Kestrel" • George Manville Fenn

... sing in "Princess Ida," "is nature's sole mistake." And he never appears more of a rummy than when some woman kills herself for him, in his embarrassed presence. His first thought is ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... burgle the outhouse? Rummy idea, rather, what? Not much sense in it. I think it must have been a tramp. I expect tramps are always popping about and nosing into all sorts ...
— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... the door closed behind her, Max Rostoff turned and snarled, "Where have you been, you rummy?" ...
— Medal of Honor • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... gently, "when you opposed the principle of prohibition the fanatics called you 'Rummy.' The name hurt ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day









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