"Rummy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
