She did not have to wait long as there were already at the farm two officers, whom she now deigns to notice, and describes as A Captain lipscomb and a Mr. Tilly; the latter she calls, a wild noisy mortal who appears bashful with girls, and she adds, We dissipated the Major's bashfulness, but I doubt we have not so good a subject now.
"Ten Girls from History"
Kate Dickinson Sweetser
On one occasion I was present at a meeting when a Mr. Martin Meredith lipscomb was a candidate for the office of city sergeant, he was an illiterate man, but had the conceit and obstinacy of a government mule, and was arguing the point that when a man was born on the lower round of the social ladder he should not be debarred from rising to the upper ones, and to illustrate his point said he, now suppose I had been born in a stable, just then some wag in the crowd interrupted him by yelling out, then, sir, you would have been a mule; this rudeness silenced the speaker for a moment, but without taking any notice of it, he resumed his argument.
"Life Gleanings"
T. J. Macon
