"Oh, that's all my eye and Betty Martin," she returned in the vernacular of her youth, "I grant you there's a lot of soft-sawder about the fellers down here, but they ain't in it wi 'us up in Yorkshire." ❋ Kathlyn Rhodes (N/A)
"You can't soft-sawder me, if that's what you mean," and Dakota Joe absorbed another mighty mouthful. ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)
"None of your soft-sawder, Master Frank," replied the old lady; "I will do what I can to make your peace, as I promised; but, as to anything further, you must be a man, and speak up for yourself." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Why, then, do you waste so much energy, and money, and civility, and 'soft-sawder,' to preserve the vulpine race? ❋ G. J. Whyte-Melville (N/A)
She wanted to treat me to the colonies, and had up the parson to talk soft-sawder and make out that ❋ Unknown (1924)
Howsomedevers, he'll stand no nonsense; and when he puts his foot down, you may as well give up, as you might sooner soft-sawder ❋ William Heysham Overend (1874)
Yes, that's well; Miles is in a state of mind at the short notice, and has crammed me choke - full of messages; he says it will save his coming down; come along, then, W. W., and soft-sawder the venerable aunts. ' ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
He certainly hadn't taken the old gentleman's advice, thinking that to "soft-sawder" so great a reprobate as Jerry Brownbie would be holding a candle to the devil. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
"You needn't ask them to your house, or go to them, but just soft-sawder them when yon meet," an old gentleman had said to him. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
His manners were gentlemanly, though he had a remarkably small amount of soft-sawder about him; and all sincerity himself, he could not believe that people were speaking falsely to him, and was at times rather apt to come out roundly with the truth, to the astonishment of those who heard him; so that he was clearly not fitted to be a courtier. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
"What's all that soft-sawder about?" said Tom Bowles, somewhat falteringly. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
“soft-sawder” so great a reprobate as Jerry Brownbie would be holding a candle to the devil. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“You needn’t ask them to your house, or go to them, but just soft-sawder them when yon meet,” an old gentleman had said to him. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"Not so bad, though, as a Frenchman I once met, who firmly believed the Yankees lived on a soup made of bunkum and soft-sawder. ❋ Paul Adrien (N/A)
