Word: quilp
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GLUBIT: Zounds! Ofeely burk this jesting lamster who doth quilp and quark my Chesterfield? Ha! I do not reck his garf nor het his nausee ambro, swink a bristly sarsaparilla, and blue as dido cucumber. Lunk to it, blanked ordinary...
...QUILP...
...themselves and their loved ones on a journey to anywhere other than a theater full of restless children. The novel's intricate plot is-paradoxically-simplified into near incomprehensibility. Its rich characterizations are reduced to banality. Anthony Newley, who also composed the film's stupefying score, plays Quilp, a scheming moneylender whose machinations reduce Nell (Sarah Jane Varley) and her grandfather to begging. Newley works himself into a great lather turning Quilp's villainy into a parody of evil so broad that the most innocent child could not possibly be scared by the funny man. Of course...
...beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British mind to be a crooked, uncertain and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the querulous, the quavering of quaking quagmires and quivering quicksands, of quibbles and quarrels, of queasiness, quackery, qualms and quilp...
...friend should ask us what college paper exhibits most of that generous, noble spirit that characterizes the good and great, and the least of that petty, snarling disposition which Quilp possessed, we should to the Yale Record and say, "Not that, not that." - Dartmouth...
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