And here I may remark that when Mr. Wopsle referred to me, he considered it a necessary part of such reference to rumple my hair and poke it into my eyes.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
And then he would rumple my hair the wrong way-which from my earliest remembrance, as already hinted, I have in my soul denied the right of any fellow-creature to do-and would hold me before him by the sleeve: a spectacle of imbecility only to be equalled by himself.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
I was once thinking to rumple up this billet till I had broken the seal.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson