Good God! What divorces, or what not worse than that, would daily happen were not the converse between a man and his wife supported and cherished by flattery, apishness, gentleness, ignorance, dissembling, certain retainers of mine also! ❋ C. 1466-1536 (1958)
Not to put too fine a point upon it, we were a tinselled lot of mimes, greatly given to apishness, and shunning naked truth as though it were the plague. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Shakespeare gives us a hint of the matter when he makes Portia ridicule the apishness of the English. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)
The Hollanders are accused of mere apishness in employing the Gothic style, and of downright dulness in apprehending its import and beauty. ❋ Unknown (1903)
I confess the beaux with their toupee wigs make us extremely merry; and frequently put me in mind of my favorite monkey, both in figure and apishness. ❋ Unknown (1902)
The tiger was there, the parrot, the hare, the goat of course, and certainly much apishness. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
But he too will there learn either to speak the truth, or to lie; and will receive from his novel lessons either of real manliness, or of that affected apishness and tailor-begotten demeanour which too many professors of the craft give out as their dearest precepts. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
With your apishness and absurdity however you have taught me one thing; and, whereas before I have winced at them with torture, I am now as tough as an elephant. ❋ William Godwin (1796)
Well, I find my apishness has paid the ransom for my speech, and set it at liberty -- though, I confess, I could be well enough pleased to drive on a love-bargain in that silent manner -- 'twould save a man a world of lying and swearing at the year's end. ❋ William Congreve (1699)
I confess the beaux with their toupee wigs make us extremely merry, and frequently put me in mind of my favorite monkey both in figure and apishness, and were it not for a reverse of circumstances, I should be apt to mistake it for Pug, and treat him with the same familiarity. "[ ❋ Carl Holliday (N/A)
But he, too, will there learn either to speak the truth, or to lie; and will receive from his novel lessons either of real manliness, or of that affected apishness and tailor-begotten demeanor which too many professors of the craft give out as their dearest precepts. " ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)
