Emmet

Emmet is a self-defeating, almost-but-not-quite lovable, fool (He falls in love with a mute girl because he loves to hear the sound of his own voice) who likes to go down by the train tracks with a bottle and shoot at rats.

Eric’s Top 10 Happy Drunk Movies for St. Patrick’s Day » Scene-Stealers 2008

I can't hear the name Emmet without thinking of a silly children's Christmas movie titled 'Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas'.

nightnurse Diary Entry nightnurse 2005

Miss Emmet is not, however, by any means alone in the arena.

Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894

Lydia Field Emmet is in her happiest vein in depicting children.

Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894

Without a word Emmet turned back to the telescope.

The Mayor of Warwick Herbert M��ller Hopkins 1890

The guy in Hartigans looks up their records and says, yeah, here it is: a delivery of half a ton of coconut-husk chips to a gardener called Emmet Byrne.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

I should probably just call Emmet Chapman and ask how much to convert my seven-string Stick Bass to fretless when I get around to sending it in for a refurb job.

Harry Potter & the [not-so-full] Chamber of Secrets badger 2002

"Emmet" meeting about the miraculous escape of Pat Crow to South

Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg

Priest Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in St. Louis, was president of the "Emmet" celebration in the year 1902.

Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg

A big collection for "the cause" had just been taken in the rolling mill district, and an orator, fresh from Parliament, had held a dozen "Emmet" meetings in the ward, with the result that, in the language of a mill foreman, the feeling was "right up to heat and ready to pour."

Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904