He kept "an ill-supported pack of hounds, that were not kept upon any fixed principles; their management was only of the scrimmaging order," but Mr. Sponge, scenting an invitation, determined to make one amongst the field.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
"Meself and Miss Pauline, sir-or Miss Pauline and meself, for the ladies comes first anyhow-we got tired of the hobstroppylous scrimmaging among the ould servants, that didn't know a joke when they seen one: and we went out to look at the comet-that's the rorybory-alehouse, they calls him in this country-and we walked upon the lawn-and divil of any alehouse there was there at all; and Miss Pauline said it was bekase of the shrubbery maybe, and why wouldn't we see it better beyonst the tree?
"Humorous Ghost Stories"
Dorothy Scarborough
Drawn to the room by the noise, a hard old nut, a retired foreman of old Sixty, stuck his head in at the door, and says he: What are you old fools scrimmaging about?
"The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3"
Robert H. Newell