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That spruce, affected little popinjay over there, who looks as if he had been drinking verjuice.
CATHERINE DE' MEDICIHONORE DE BALZAC
Then will they miss seeing a man, and not a popinjay, I retorted.
BY ORDER OF THE COMPANYMARY JOHNSTON
You might argue with them all day, and you could not make them feel so small as I made that popinjay feel in one hour.
EIGHTY YEARS AND MORE; REMINISCENCES 1815-1897ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
When the class war came, he would naturally he found shooting down the workmen; but for any other war, an ignorant popinjay!
THE WAR ON ALL FRONTS: ENGLAND'S EFFORTMRS. HUMPHRY WARD
The very quintessence of popinjay vulgarity is reached when nicely is made to do service for well, in this wise: "How do you do?"
THE VERBALISTTHOMAS EMBLY OSMUN, (AKA ALFRED AYRES)
On the high sea, I am in supreme control, and know how to run the Mauretania without advice from a bloody Spanish popinjay!
THE GHOST BREAKERCHARLES GODDARD
He perceived that this fussy lawyer was not wholly a popinjay, for it required courage to insult a pirate to his face.
BLACKBEARD: BUCCANEERRALPH D. PAINE
What of Wagner, with his delight in imbecile fables, his popinjay vanity, his soul of a Schnorrer?
A BOOK OF PREFACESH. L. MENCKEN
As for this young Popinjay, he will have more need to protect himself than these Kingdoms.
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN DANGEROUS, VOL. 1 OF 3GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA
And in Earl Richard and other ballads, it is the 'popinjay' that proclaims guilt or fear from turret or tree.
THE BALLADISTSJOHN GEDDIE
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