They wove no mild sort of halo for the head of a shillelagh-flourishing Whitechapel Countess descended from the writer and doer.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
Granting Whitechapel and the shillelagh affair, certain whispers of her good looks, contested only to be the more violently asserted; and therewith Rose Mackrell's tale of her being a 'young woman of birth,' having a 'romantic story to tell of herself and her parentage,' made her latest performance the champagne event of it hitherto.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
Yet how mountaineer without ballads any more than without a shillelagh?
"Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry"
Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston