A fico for you, madam," said the most undutiful of great-great-grandsons.

I wouldn't give a fico for a girl with flaxen hair; she might as well be a wax doll, and have her eyes moved by a wire; besides, they've no souls.

Only be sure, the song be pure; and you may "give the fico to your adversaries."

And for her birtha fico!

No doubt there would be gibing at White's, and shrugging at Almack's; but a fico, too, for thatit would not hurt him at Guadeloupe, and little at Genoa.

" He has notes also upon "meal-mouthed," "luxuriousnesse," "termagant," "fico," "estro," "a nest of goblets," which indicate either that the "general reader" is a less intelligent person in England than in America, or that Mr. Halliwell's standard of scholarship is very low.