"Fiddlestick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "A viper—a fiddlestick," said Miss Sharp to the old lady, almost fainting with astonishment. "You took me because I was useful. There is no question of gratitude between us. I hate this place, and want to leave it. I will do nothing here but what I ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... "Fiddlestick, man! You are full of music. Who has not heard leaves rustle in the wind, or listened to the babble of a brook; yet to the majority they are no more than what they seem—rustling leaves, a babbling brook—but to you and me these are an inspiration, voices of Nature, of God, of the Infinite, ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... disproportions of the world, and, in the face of the gigantic stars, cannot stop to split differences between two degrees of the infinitesimally small, such as a tobacco pipe or the Roman Empire, a million of money or a fiddlestick's end. ...
— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson
... situation for two women to find themselves in? A fiddlestick's end for the situation! We have got an easy way out of it—thanks, Mother Oldershaw, to what I myself forced you to do, not three hours before the Somersetshire ...
— Armadale • Wilkie Collins
... "Fiddlestick-end!" snapped the unconscionable lady, not removing her eyes from mine. "Was this man Stimcoe drunk, eh? No; I beg your pardon," she corrected herself. "I oughtn't to be asking a boy to tell tales out of school. 'Thou ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... a doodle doo, My dame has lost her shoe; My master's lost his fiddlestick, And knows not ...
— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies • Anonymous
... "Well, Miss Fiddlestick!"—with an implication of what of that? Were there not plenty of Nightingales in the world? Miss Sally ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... sham polish and fiddlestick ends," echoed Henderson; and Mackworth, who had every intention of making a very flourishing speech, was so disconcerted by this unwonted pruning of his periods, that he somewhat abruptly sat down, muttering anathemas ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar
... evening before his visit to the Dodds, Dr. Sampson dined with the Hardies, and happened to mention the "Dodds" among his old patients: "The Dodds of' Albion Villa?" inquired Miss Hardie, to her brother's no little surprise. "Albyn fiddlestick!" said the polished doctor. "No! they live by the water-side; used to; but now they have left the town, I hear. He is a sea-captain and a fine lad, and Mrs. Dodd is just the best-bred woman I ever prescribed for, ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... 'Cottage! Fiddlestick! The idea of a man coming to look after his trumpery cottage on the first day of his showing himself as lord of his own property! Perhaps he is demanding that you shall be delivered up to him. If he does I shall vote ...
— The Belton Estate • Anthony Trollope
... to the grave with fiddlestick!" Mrs. Milliken said with some asperity. "And, as we are going to part, mamma, and as Horace has paid EVERYTHING on the journey as yet, and we have only brought a VERY few circular notes with us, perhaps you will have the kindness to ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray
... "Fiddlestick!" said Miss Gabriel. "You and your cap!" She, herself, was not frightened, only a little nervous. "If you ask me, it's better you were thinking of those poor souls out on the rocks yonder. Little enough they'll be thinking, just now, of such things ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... Fall upon a fiddlestick's end!—why, I suppose it is the very thing that would please ...
— The Rivals - A Comedy • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... "Fiddlestick! She has grown thin; she mopes in her room all day long, and hasn't a word for anyone—she who used to be the ...
— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming
... a fiddlestick!" retorted his lordship. "The interpretation we gave to the note, I and Carlyle, was, that you had been actuated by motives of jealousy; had penned it in a jealous mood. I put the question to Carlyle—as between man and man—do you listen, Isabel!—whether ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood
... Planetary hour—planetary fiddlestick! My dear Sir Arthur, the fellow has made a gull of you under ground, and now he would make a ...
— Red Cap Tales - Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... king's fiddlestick!" answered the baron. "What do you mean by coming here with your cock and bull, stories of my daughter grievously bruising the sheriff of Nottingham? You are a set of vagabond rascals in disguise; ...
— Maid Marian • Thomas Love Peacock
... eyes; but this Princess Luisante is not really the heroine, and is absent from the greater part of the tale, though she is finally provided with the hero's brother, who is a reigning prince, and has everything handsome about him. The actual hero Tarare (French for "Fiddlestick!" or something of that sort, and of course an assumed name), in order to cure Luisante's eyes of their lethal quality, has to liberate a still more attractive damsel—the title-heroine—putative daughter of a good fairy and actual victim of a bad one, quite in the orthodox style. He does ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... "Fiddlestick!" said Mrs. Finn. "How is he to maintain you, or himself either, if he goes on in that way? I shouldn't wonder if he didn't get himself all wrong, even now." Then Mrs. Finn began to cry; and Mary could only write to her lover, pointing out to him how very anxious all his friends ...
— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope
... "Especially requires a fiddlestick!" said Lydia; and, disregarding his smiling "Not at all," she went on in an injured tone: "There's ma worrying over accounts, and likely to worry for the next hour. How am I to get a key from ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... "Untimely fiddlestick!" was Mr. Hastings' still more irritable reply. "He thinks he is a hero, and presumes upon it to intrude himself in a most insufferable manner. I have no doubt Jonas would have got along without any of ...
— Three People • Pansy
... "The antarctic fiddlestick," said he, contemptuously. "It is far more likely to be some volcanic island in the South Sea. There's a tremendous volcano in the Sandwich Islands, and these ...
— A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder • James De Mille
... 'Charity fiddlestick! A prize-winner like you! And now good-bye, pet, or I shall be late for dinner, which offends the ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... in the Kings name, play the man, Which if you do not quickly, I begin with you, I'le make you dance, do you see your fiddlestick? Sweet ...
— The Little French Lawyer - A Comedy • Francis Beaumont
... ourselves when in the square-toed state? The Eton master, who was breaking a lance with our Paterfamilias of late, turned on Paterfamilias, saying, He knows not the nature and exquisite candor of well-bred English boys. Exquisite fiddlestick's end, Mr. Master! Do you mean for to go for to tell us that the relations between young gentlemen and their schoolmasters are entirely frank and cordial; that the lad is familiar with the man who can have him flogged; never shirks his exercise; never ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... "As great a fiddlestick!" ejaculated the other with infinite scorn, having the reputation of being as much of a woman-hater as Diogenes. "If I was as big an ass about those 'chawming girls' as you call them, I tell you what I would do—I'd go ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson |
