Argal

In the olden time philosophers had whiskers, and soldiers none -- Scipio himself was shaven -- Hannibal thought his one eye handsome enough without a beard; but Adrian, the emperor, wore a beard (having warts on his chin, which neither the Empress Sabina nor even the courtiers could abide) -- Turenne had whiskers, Marlborough none -- Buonaparte is unwhiskered, the Regent whiskered; "'argal'" greatness of mind and whiskers may or may not go together; but certainly the different occurrences, since the growth of the last mentioned, go further in behalf of whiskers than the anathema of Anselm did ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

I especially enjoyed the week of archaic conjunctions from late November: argal sobeit whencesoever albeit forwhy ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thy father loved me for my lack of officiousness, argal, to serve thee is a religious duty incumbent on me. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Next day this hospital case turns up, and because the description of its author, given by more or less unobservant persons, fits the person you saw, _argal_, you jump to the conclusion that the three are one! ❋ J. Mclaren Cobban (N/A)

From Fort Kearney to Fort Laramie, almost the only fuel to be obtained is the dung of buffalo and oxen, called, in the vocabulary of the region, "chips," -- the _argal_ of the Tartar deserts. ❋ Various (N/A)

Our poet, he said, was the grandest output of the Teutonic mind; nine-tenths of the Teutonic mind was German-argal, ❋ Various (N/A)

They give every token of hating their neighbors consumedly; _argal_, they are going to be madly enamored of them. ❋ Various (N/A)

Here lies the water; good: here stands the man; good: if the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. ❋ Unknown (1914)

I like thy wit well, in good faith; the gallows does well, but how does it well? it does well to those that do ill; now thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the church: argal, the gallows may do well to thee. ❋ Unknown (1914)

For here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly it argues an act; and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform: argal, she drowned herself wittingly. ❋ Unknown (1914)

For here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act, and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform; argal, 3 she drown’d herself wittingly. ❋ Unknown (1909)

But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself; argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Now, thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the church, argal, the gallows may do well to thee. ❋ Unknown (1909)

But if the afternoon tea come to him and bore him, he bores not himself; argal, he that goes not willingly to the afternoon tea wearies not his own life. ' ❋ Ralph Bergengren (1909)

But the Teuton has _kartoffel, _ utterly different; argal again, the ❋ Kenneth Morris (1908)

None the less his jaw hardened beneath his fair beard and he answered, 'I have as yet written no letters -- _litteras nullas scripsi: argal nihil scio_.' ❋ Ford Madox Ford (1906)

[7] De Maistre found a curiously characteristic kind of support for this view in the fact that evils are called _fléaux_: flails are things to beat with: so evils must be things with which men are beaten; and as we should not be beaten if we did not deserve it, _argal_, suffering is a merited punishment. ❋ John Morley (1880)

Blackstone's Commentaries, and argal (as the gravedigger in Hamlet says) he was not a person to be laughed at. ' ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)