No sooner did he join that popinjay set of fellows, the th hussars, than he turned out, what he calls a four-in-hand drag, which dragged nine hundred pounds out of my pocket -then he has got a yacht at Cowes-a grouse mountain in Scotland-and has actually given Tattersall an unlimited order to purchase the Wreckinton pack of harriers, which he intends to keep for the use of the corps.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Even Tattersall suspended his "he is five years old-a good hack-and is to be sold," to give time for the general exclamation of surprise.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
"Nay," answered I, relapsing into my usual tone of languid affectation; "I shall have too much to do in attending to Stultz, and Nugee, and Tattersall and Baxter, and a hundred other occupiers of spare time.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009