"Flam" Quotes from Famous Books
... boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flam'd amazement." ... — The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... we were marching on some unsuspecting village, to send the quartermaster sergeants ahead on bicycles to locate billets. We had an old granny named Cypress, better known as Lizzie. The other sergeants were accustomed to flim-flam Lizzie to a finish on the selection of billets, with the result that C company usually ... — A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes
... always the money to lend a man, Down on his luck and hard up for a V! Sure, you'll be playing a harp in beatitude (And a quare sight you will be in that attitude)— Some day, where gratitude seems but a platitude, You'll find your latitude, Barney McGee. That's no flim-flam at all, Frivol or sham at all, Just the plain—Damn it all, Have one with me! Here's luck and more to you! Friends by the score to you, True to the core to you, ... — More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey |