As a "thirdsman" to Flaubert and Dumas _fils_, he shows some interesting differences. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
But a sort of umpire, or at any rate thirdsman, the shepherd Silvandre, [145] when asked his opinion, makes an ingenious objection. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
The best of them, Herrick and Carew, with Crashaw as a great thirdsman, called themselves "sons" of Ben Jonson, and so in a way they were; but they were even more sons of Donne. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
After which an unlucky thirdsman, interfering, gets shot, and buried _as_ one of the others -- "which is witty, let us 'ope," as the poetical historian of the quarrel between ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
[188] The Count Albani plays his difficult part of thirdsman very well throughout, though just at first he would make an advance on "auld lang syne" if Lucrezia would let him. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
[237] If anybody pleads for Louis Bertrand of _Gaspard de la Nuit_ as a thirdsman, I should accept him gladly, though he is even farther from the novel-norm than Gérard himself. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
Put up, both of you, or I shall lug out as thirdsman, and prove perhaps the worst devil of the three! — ❋ Unknown (1855)
` ` Ay, but MacCallummore's blood wadna sit down wi 'that; there was risk of Andro Ferrara coming in thirdsman.' ' ❋ Unknown (1822)
` ` I do not know, '' replied the gracious Duncan, ` ` what her practices or postures are, but I pelieve that if the poys take hould on her to duck her in the Clachan purn, it will be a very sorry practice --- and I pelieve, moreover, that if I come in thirdsman among you at the kirk-sessions, you will be all in a tamn'd pad posture indeed. '' ❋ Unknown (1822)
Put up, both of you, or I shall lug out as thirdsman, and prove perhaps the worst devil of the three! ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
But it would be a foul reflection upon me, as a man of honour, if I did not take care that there should be somebody to come in thirdsman between ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
"I do not know," replied the gracious Duncan, "what her practices or postures are, but I pelieve that if the poys take hould on her to duck her in the Clachan purn, it will be a very sorry practice -- and I pelieve, moreover, that if I come in thirdsman among you at the kirk-sessions, you will be all in a tamn'd pad posture indeed." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
George of Seyton was crossing the causeway this morning with a score of men at his back, and had a ruffle with my friends of the house of Leslie — they met at the Tron, and were fighting hard, when the provost, with his guard of partisans, came in thirdsman, and staved them asunder with their halberds, as men part dog and bear.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
But it would be a foul reflection upon me, as a man of honour, if I did not take care that there should be somebody to come in thirdsman between Death and my principal.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Ay, but MacCallummore’s blood wadna sit down wi’ that; there was risk of Andro Ferrara coming in thirdsman.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
