Word: pickwickian
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...steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair of the 16th Century, a Pickwickian stagecoach, a Japanese rickshaw and an Egyptian whatnot, to remind the fortunate who ride within that there are less comfortable ways to travel. For the convenience of any lady who might be so ill-advised as to forfeit a quiet walk for a ride in this car, there was a vanity...
Although a Republican mob may not force the Democrats to shout with them or be black-jacked in the old fashioned Pickwickian way, it may derive a fine feeling of self-satisfaction in being merely the largest mob. There is a unit in the parade tonight for every energetic Republican, who wants to make it the "largest mob"; and this expression of political faith calls for no backhanded slaps at the Democrats in the modern fashion. It is "old fashioned" and wholesome...
...play is a jovial dissertation on marriage, its risks, its illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the courtship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty...
...play might be called a jovial dissertation on marriage, its risks, its illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the court ship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled...
...remind our excellent friends - however much we may enjoy their little jeux d'esprit - that we are all more or less bound by social conventions; and the outside and unrefined world are sadly apt not to take insult or invective, as we know it is given, - purely in a Pickwickian sense...