"Noy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who had before been engaged in many unsuccessful periodicals, found in "Punch" ample scope for his wit and extraordinary faculty of punning. In "The Comic Blackstone," "Political Dictionary," "Punch's Noy's Maxims," and the "Autobiography, and other papers relating to Mr. Briefless," he put his legal knowledge to a comic use. Many fugitive minor pieces have also proceeded from his pen, and he has but few equals in that grotesque form of hybrid poetry known as Macaronic. He ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... as per'sion ex cep'tion e lec'tion con di'tion a tone'ment a gree'ment dec're ment de'i fy stu'pe fy sat'is fy an noy'ance ac cord'ance con cord'ance oc cur'rence ab hor'rence in dul'gence a mu'sive con clu'sive of fen'sive cur'so ry ar'mo ry man'da to ry dan'ger ous li'bel ous har ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey
... to that. Later in the day the Duke met me in St. James' Street, and said, 'Noy'—my name is Noy, sir, Timothy Noy—'Noy,' said he, 'I owe you twenty-two thousand pounds; and begad, sir, it's a desperate business for I haven't the money, nor the half of it.' Well, I didn't fly out in a rage, but stood there beside him on the pavement, tapping my shoe ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... me seeth, he seeth sorwe al at ones, Peyne, torment, pleynte, wo, distresse. Out of my woful body harm ther noon is, As anguish, langour, cruel bitternesse, A-noy, smert, drede, fury, and eek siknesse. 845 I trowe, y-wis, from hevene teres reyne, For pitee of myn aspre and ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... But as the stone that strikes the wall Sometimes bounds back on th' hurler's head, So your foul fetch, to your foul fall May turn, and 'noy the breast that bred. And then, such measure as you gave Of right and justice look to have, If good or ill, if short or long; If false or true, if right or wrong; And thus, till then, ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin |
