They do not understand me; the big noisy boors do not understand rhythm or nuance.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
I am a poet, and play upon the tympani; the conductor and the orchestra are boors.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
At the end of an hour you discover that the soi disant commissionaire will transact all this affair for a few francs; and, after a tiresome wait in a filthy room, jostled, elbowed, and trampled upon, by boors with sabots, you adjourn to your inn, and begin to feel that you are not in England.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)