"Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords" - George Eliot, Middlemarch
"'Ruined, ruined, my dinner is quite ruined, and it is all the doing of that long-eared looby Figgins Pocock. There he sits, the illiterate, ill-deedy gowk, next to the Admiral's secretary.'"--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 95
from Middlemarch. An awkward fellow.
"Thus while I tell the truth about loobies, my reader's imagination need not be entirely excluded from an occupation with lords"
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
"'Ruined, ruined, my dinner is quite ruined, and it is all the doing of that long-eared looby Figgins Pocock. There he sits, the illiterate, ill-deedy gowk, next to the Admiral's secretary.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 95
from Middlemarch. An awkward fellow.