The late Convention has been Twitted with inconsistency on the score of having negatived outright the proposal for a Commission to overhaul the Constitution of the Church while consenting to send the Prayer Book to a committee for review.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
When unusually greedy, she Twitted him as a boy "worse than Butter-and-Eggs"; that is, as troublesome as the yellow and white plant, called toad-flax, is to the farmer-very pretty, but nothing but a weed.
"Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks"
William Elliot Griffis
And yet the advocate of temperance is Twitted with his negligence of other causes which are perhaps as necessary; and he who pleads for foreign missions is reminded that we have heathen at home.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods