The days are gone when a girl would so much as look at such a fribble as Sir Plume.
All this, frivolous fribble though it might be, Lady Maulevrier read with delight, and she was still more gratified by Lesbia's own account of her successes.
In fine, he fell in love with Mildred Claridge after a thorough-going fashion such as Prince Fribble would have found amusing.
And he strode on, resolved to be Prince Fribble to the last.
He lighted a cheroot with hands whose tremblings, he devoutly hoped, were not apparent, for Prince Fribble had been ashamed to manifest a sincere emotion of any sort, and Paul Vanderhoffen shared as yet this foible.
The event had already justified her; and in a flash of self-contempt he saw himself as she no doubt beheld him--the fribble preying like a summer insect on the slow growths of difficult years.
She was promised in marriage by her aunt and guardian to an elderly man whom she detested; and during the absence of captain Loveit in the Flanders war, she coquetted with Mr. Fribble and captain Flash.
Now you see why I may have been before A fribble and coxcomb, yet, as priest, break word Nowise, to make you disbelieve me now.
Much less call fop and fribble, worse one whit Than fribble and fop!
It is strange that Garrick failed to perceive the golden opportunity he might have had as Sir Giles; he assigned the part to an inferior actor named Bridges, and preferred playing Fribble in "Miss in Her Teens.
Out of six friends whom I invited to partake of it four have already been booked inside passengers for the other world, and my dear Mrs. Fribble and me have been confined with inflammation ever since.
If Francis Fribble figured on a Frenchman's Filly, Where's the Frenchman's Filly Francis Fribble figured on?
The Church encouraged its priest to be "a fribble and a coxcomb"; and a fribble and a coxcomb, by his own confession, Caponsacchi became.
Miss Dobriner daubed at her red lips with a lacy fribble of handkerchief, her voice sotto behind it.
Her voice slipped up and away for the moment, and she crammed her lacy fribbleof a handkerchief tight against her lips, tiptoeing closer to the transmitter.
There will not be a fribble in the whole company, even including the poor old atomy, Sir Harry, to compare with you.
He ought to have been taken about the country in order to show the world the true meaning of a fribble and a beau.
