In one instance he is guilty of the barbarous cockneyism of using the word _party_ as an equivalent for _person_. ❋ Various (N/A)
Which being interpreted into cockneyism would read, 'If you threw a glass of whisky over Westminster Bridge it would be better grog than that at Greenwich Pier.' ❋ S.M. Hussey (N/A)
The angler of that ilk fifty years ago, as I can well remember, for all his cockneyism, worked hard for his sport, and enjoyed a fair amount of it. ❋ William Senior (N/A)
The water-laws, arctic frost, the mountain, the mine, only shatter cockneyism; every noble activity makes room for itself. ❋ Unknown (1909)
There was silence after this outburst, which for the life of me I could not help, remembering how I had suffered from cockneyism and its cause on those same waters of old time. ❋ Unknown (1892)
But in the form of its expression it exemplified that illusion of metropolitanism which is to my mind the veriest cockneyism in disguise, and which cannot but strike Americans as either ridiculous or offensive. ❋ William Archer (1890)
Democratic manners were at a discount in these little hotbeds of amateur cockneyism; the gloomy severities of the old-fashioned religion were put aside; there was an increasing gap between the higher and the lower orders of the population. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
Keats's cockneyism, Tennyson's mawkishness, find no counterpart in Milton's early compositions. ❋ Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 (1890)
I trudge up the Mont Cavalier, -- it is a matter of five minutes, -- and having committed this cockneyism enhanced it presently by another. ❋ Various (1885)
It was brought home to me that the _populations rurales_ have many different ways of suffering, and my heart glowed with a grateful sense of cockneyism. ❋ Henry James (1879)
Cavalier -- it is a matter of five minutes -- and having committed this cockneyism, enhanced it presently by another. ❋ Henry James (1879)
He had apparently once possessed a certain knowledge of English, and his accent was oddly tinged with the cockneyism of the British metropolis. ❋ Unknown (1877)
I don't care about being in Hastings; there's too much cockneyism in the place at this time of year. ❋ Unknown (1875)
Thackeray did much to laugh away the novel of mediæval chivalry; and while we think he often carried his irreverent jocosity much too far, since after all chivalry is better than cockneyism, we may award him the very high honour of becoming, latterly, one of the founders of a new and admirable historical school in England. ❋ Alfred Comyn Lyall (1873)
Coleridge and the youthful Byron, Shelley's extravagance, Keats's cockneyism, Tennyson's mawkishness, find no counterpart in Milton's early compositions. ❋ Richard Garnett (1870)
Critics had once objected to it, that it was made to subsist on scenery, a song, and a stupid piece of cockneyism pretending to be a jest, that was really no more than a form of slapping the public on the back. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
