"For my part I think the whole thing was a fizzle.

You Frenchmen fizzle, and crack, and shoot up into the air, and otherwise get away with yourselves so fast, that no wonder the Germans can't always find you when they go for you.

"Oh, this isn't one," said Guy Morris good-humoredly; "this is just a first-class fizzle.

"Yes, plenty of other thing change, have their day and cease to be, but the little village keeps its end up and sees thingsand mencome and go, flare up, flicker and fizzle out.

V. bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle^, gurgle; effervesce, ferment, fizzle.

V. go out, die out, burn out; fizzle. extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.

V. hiss, buzz, whiz, rustle; fizz, fizzle; wheeze, whistle, snuffle; squash; sneeze; sizzle, swish.

Well, if he does they may send for Joe and me, and that will be so much more business for us, though I'm sorry to see him make a fizzle of it.

The Reverend Alonzo Fizzle had preached his farewell-sermon to his disconsolate people in Drowsytown.

"Take a seat, Fizzle?" said he.

"Why, the mischief, Fizzle," said Dizzle, "did you say in your farewell-sermon, that it was just as well to preach to the dead buried six feet under the earth as to the people of Drowsytown?" "I?I?I?" gasped the astonished Fizzle.

"Why, the mischief, Fizzle," said Dizzle, "did you say in your farewell-sermon, that it was just as well to preach to the dead buried six feet under the earth as to the people of Drowsytown?" "I?I?I?" gasped the astonished Fizzle.

Fizzle leaped out, hurried to his home, and was soon seen whipping his unfortunate horse in a certain direction.

"Glorious view from this window," observed Fizzle.

"The beauties of Nature are calming and consolatory," murmured Fizzle.

Fizzle could hold out no longer.

"Pray, how did it come, Brother Muzzle," said Fizzle, "that you reported I declared in my farewell-sermon it was as easy to preach to the dead buried six feet under the earth as to the people of Drowsytown?"

Every man had confidence in Heffiner, but it was believed by the majority that the freshman was still raw, and therefore was liable to make a wretched fizzle of it.

I don't want this novel to all fizzle out without there being any one to make it a love story!

I asked the young 'ooman for a bottle o' ale, when she put a tallish bottle down wi' a beg head; an' as I wur dry I knocked the neck off, an' the ale kum a-fizzing out like ginger pop,an' 'twer no use to try to stop the fizzle.

Thur wur two or dree gentlemen in, an' thay larfed at the fizzle an' I. It seemed to meak me veel merryish, an' I zed, "What's to pay, young 'ooman?"

And the two youngsters grew up and got married and" Hawkins laughed peculiarly"made a fizzle of it.

This marriage of your daughter's, which was going to set you up in funds, has proved a fizzle, eh?

The silence was broken by a long fizzle, during which the Kamchadals conscientiously kept their eyes shut, and finally a terrific bang announced the catastrophe, followed immediately by two more sharp reports from the rifles of the Major and myself.

The animal has plenty of time, after the gun begins to fizzle, to eat a hearty dinner of blueberries, run fifteen miles across a range of mountains into a neighbouring province, and get comfortably asleep in his hole before the deadly explosion takes place!