There be some things in him that answer for his Waggeries: he will come when you call him, go when you bid him, and shut the door after him; he is faithful and stout, and a lover of his master.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
It must be allowed that Miss Agnes was unjust; that it would not have been fair to visit upon the harmless and, on the whole, good-natured persons who congregated in that lively receptacle, and read the Times through their spectacles there, the Waggeries and exaggerations of the agreeable captain, and to have reached that incorrigible offender, and demolished his stronghold at so great a waste of human life.
"The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3"
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Bixiou had the whole history of his own times at his finger-ends, more particularly its scandalous chronicle, embellished by added Waggeries of his own.
"The Firm of Nucingen"
Honore de Balzac