"Blarney" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conversation by assuring the handsome young bride that she would be as safe in green Erin as in the arms of her mother. Looking at the young lady it was easy to see that this speech was involuntary Irish blarney, a compliment to her handsome face. "You will meet the greatest kindness here, you will have the heartiest welcome on the face of the earth," ...
— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall
... goodness of Providence, and arranged at the same time sundry fine speeches to make to the bride; so that the old lady's piety and flattery ran a strange couple together along with herself; while mixed up with her prayers and her blarney, were certain speculations about Jack Dwyer—as to how long he could live—and how much he ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover
... the member for Blarney, when he votes for smashing in the porter's lodges of that Protestant institution, and talks of Toleration and Equal Rights, and calls the Duke of Tuscany a broth of a boy, and a light to illumine heretical darkness, don't talk this nonsense ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... hear your blarney and your brogue, Larry. By the way, old Mrs. Van Dyke is aboard and demands a ...
— The Cricket • Marjorie Cooke
... read the Arabian Nights, I found out that Oriental tales have no morals," dryly observed Mr. Rose. "A man who had been brought up with the Blarney Stone for a teething-ring once sold me an unexpurgated edition de luxe, with illustrations, ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram |
