I'd worked up a fifteen-minute spiel too that was a gem of street corner eloquence, and no matter where I stuck up my flare I could do an evenin's business runnin' from ten to forty dollars.
Why, in one forenoon I could coach you up for a spiel that would set 'em mobbin' the ticket wagons!
I recognized him: Dave, a heavyset, self- important jerk who loved to work the front door, even though he blew his spiel about half the time.
Debra's spielfinally wound down and Lil and I headed away.
Debra started unreeling a long spiel about critical paths, milestones, requirements meetings, and I tuned her out.
It's like the castmembers whospiel on the Jungleboat Cruise.
No more shall we muster the river for fats, Or spielon the Fifteen-mile plain, Or rip through the scrub by the light of the moon, Or see the old stockyard again.
That's th' spiel she makes; an' it falls true, see!
This time he gets it--almost, and I lets himspiel away.
It turns out that he was new to the job, and this was his first call to spiel off the splicin' service.
He couldn't get any one else to listen to him, and as he had a lot of unused conversation on hand I let him spiel it off at me.
Whenever you get the chance, take my notes and try to write a better spiel from them than I do.
Just single-space that introductory spiel at the top, will you?
He was so dead anxious to connect himself with that red cart before the crowd that I just let him spiel away.
He was too happy and satisfied to join in any debate, and inside of ten minutes he's at it again; so I lets him spiel away.
Anyhow it was a lecture by Lord Somebody for the benefit of Lord knows what; the nearest I could make out it was a spiel on "Do married men make the best husbands.
If she'd told me that same I would have thought she was flashin a spielfor Sweet Caps.
Well, I've heard you throw a spiel and think you'll do.
You think you respect me--you always hand out some spiel about my being so 'useful.
Kennicott fondly rambled as they left the hall: "What the deuce did that last spiel mean?
That's a fine spiel for a good Presbyterian to be going to, when you can hear Doc Drew!
But spiel as beautiful as he would, he couldn't raise answerin' delight on the face of his benefactor-to-be.
If it's as desperate as all that," says I, "spiel away.
Artaxerxes a Persian King is said to have been the inventor of a game which the Germans call Bret-spiel and chess was invented as a rival game.
I passed the word to Merritt to delay the game and make a last grand effort to throw a scare into the coon, and he put up a spiel to beat the band.
I sold the tickets and put up the spiel on the front, and Merritt lectured inside and we did a land-office business.
As I say, the poetry was strictly on the bum, but what it lacked in quality it made up in quantity and he could spiel it off by the yard.
It may here be observed that Geiler's bells are intended by himself for the caps of "Spiel Narre"--gambling fools.
The road without dust and the tree without leaves are in 'Ein Spiel von den Freiheit,' p.
Should you decide to take it up, I shall be glad to have you accompany me an afternoon, and hear me spiel it.
The spiel and look you turn on these cooks and maids and house girls, and everybody, is guaranteed to make the dead take notice.
So McWhirter gives the bunch a spiel a mile long and would be going yet, but somebody calls out to him to dry up, an' he gets red in the face and dries up, and the game starts.
She stops 'em all right, and keeps Pete in after school to give him a spiel about being good and a credit to the school and his Ma and Pa, and right there she plants the idea in Pete about getting a medal.
The effect of the spielis a species of drunkenness which creates an instant demand for liquor, and a temporary recklessness of the possible results of strong drink.
You spielby holding hands with your partner at arms' length, and whirling round and round at the highest possible speed.
Dudley to work puttin' on dance records, and, with Mrs. Mumford and the Professor and half the crew for a gallery, we gave an exhibition spiel for an hour or so.
