Hehe hired a wretched humbug of a man who pretended to be an English swell to teach him manners, so that he could be a little worthier of you.

The former is the clerical humbug, and the latter the lay religious hypocrite.

The canting, little, methodistical humbug!

A boy in the gallery cried in a loud tone, "It's all an infernal humbug," just as Dennis, waving his hand, commanded silence, and tried No. 4: "I agree, in general, with my friend the other side of the room."

Oh, you're a precious, consistent old humbug, you are!'

I would a thousand times rather suffer and enjoy his hearty grasp than the cold formality of conventional humbug.

And he a more miserable shoneen than his old crawthumping humbug of a father.

I'm more ignorant than half the poor things that I've heard talk of their faith and hope; but I see it is not the decorous humbug it once looked like.

The people are phantoms, the realities are shadows, and I a wretched humbug, duller than all!

"Tinsel, paste, and dusty bonesall humbug and extortion.

You are a fearful humbug in some ways, Rudolph.

We rather like his style; it is free, but not coarse; spirited, but not crazy; determined, but not bigoted; and it is in no way spice with either cant or hallowed humbug.

"Tinsel, paste, and dusty bonesall humbug and extortion.

" Ben Gaynor was never the man for successful subterfuge, especially with his daughter; she could read every look in his eye, every twitch of his mouth, and now, over many miles of country telephone lines, she knew that her beloved old humbug of a male parent was "holding out on her.

I don't care where you are, what your people are, nor very much whether you've kept quite clear of this medium humbug.

The canting, little, methodistical humbug!

At Tunawai the conservatives sent into Nevada for that pacific old humbug, Johnson Sides, most notable of Paiute orators, to harangue his people.

Oh, you're a precious, consistent old humbug, you are!'

Perhaps you may find a teacher who will comply with your wishes; who will be exceedingly deferential to your little whims; will unhesitatingly accept your report of your own sensations and your hypotheses as to their cause; and, Esmeralda, when once your eyes behold that model man, be content, and go and take lessons of another, for either he is a pretentious humbug, careless of everything except his fees, or he is an ignoramus.

Another class of prosperous humbugs is the fortune-tellers, who are found around every temple and in every public place, ready to forecast the fate of every enterprise that may be disclosed to them; ready to predict good fortune and evil fortune, and sometimes they display remarkable penetration and predict events with startling accuracy.

It's such rotten humbug.

In our democracies, however, it is impossible to believe in the divinity of humbugs, shaky and discredited, like some of our moth-eaten Ministers; we are too close to them, we know their dirty tricks, so they have invented the idea of concealing God behind their drop-curtain; God means the Republic, the Country, Justice, Civilisation; the names are painted up on the outside.

Their opponents say that they are sheer humbugs, and brought into life by a few old political hacks for their own selfish ends.

Lawyers, according to him, were a set of thorough humbugs and impostors, who gained their living by false pretencethat of affording advice and counsel, which every sane man could better render himself.

CRUPP (Mrs.), a typical humbug, who let chambers in Buckingham Street for young gentlemen.