" She canted her head a little to one side; such an encounter of personal quips was a seventh heaven to her.

A man who has been canting all his life may cant to the last; and yet a man who has been refused a pardon after so much petitioning, would hardly be praying thus fervently for the king.

Dryden's bitter jibeAbsalom and Achitophel (November, 1681), I, 575: And canting Nadab let oblivion damn, Who made new porridge for the paschal lamb.

A new doctrine,[10] received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly worked into the body of our thoughts, lights us a step farther into the heart of this rough but noble universe.

It is delightful to see the great, generous poet going upon grounds of reason and justice in the teeth of the trumped-up rights of the "pious Æneas," that shabby deserter of Dido, and canting prototype of Augustus.

My Lord Protector feasts the Dutch ambassadors with music and with wine, my Lords Ireton and Fairfax and Hutchinson and the accursed lot of canting Puritans flaunt it in silks and satins, whilst I go about in a ragged doublet and with holes in my shoes.

He is one of those canting sneaks father detested, and I won't serve under such cattle.

With his sanctified face and canting tongue!" "I'm almost ashamed to own itbut

By the time they had canted the water out of the swamped boat, Bill and his partner appeared on the scene.

at this damned canting unmasculine age!" [Footnote 27: Talfourd.

They use the most extravagant gesturesastounding bellowingsa canting hypocritical whineslow and solemn, although by no means musical intonations, and the et ceteras that complete the qualifications of a regular camp-meeting methodist parson.

Do your folks generally let you run around like this?" Every man canted his ear to get the answer and already they were grinning expectantly.

Minds capable of the widest comprehension, when held back from their proper field, may turn to lesser employments, that fools may wonder at, and canting hypocrites accuseA