fiddle-faddles

And so I think this important day has made a great hole in this side of the paper; and the fiddle-faddles of tomorrow and Monday will make up the rest; and, besides, I shall see Harley on Tuesday before this letter goes.

The Journal to Stella 2003

And so I think this important day has made a great hole in this side of the paper; and the fiddle-faddles of tomorrow and Monday will make up the rest; and, besides, I shall see Harley on Tuesday before this letter goes.

The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

-- Of course, it's mostly father that fiddle-faddles with all that sort of thing.

The Wild Duck 1884

"Hast one of these fiddle-faddles thyself? or dost thou desire to have one?"

It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

The worsted-work sofas, the counterpanes patched or knitted (but these are among the old-fashioned in the country), the bushels of pincushions, the albums they laboriously fill, the tremendous pieces of music they practise, the thousand other fiddle-faddles which occupy the attention of the dear souls -- nay, have we not seen them seated of evenings in a squad or company, Louisa employed at the worsted-work before mentioned,

Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

And so I think this important day has made a great hole in this side of the paper; and the fiddle-faddles of tomorrow and Monday will make up the rest; and, besides, I shall see Harley on Tuesday before this letter goes.

The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

a Siberian dinner, where you just look on fiddle-faddles, while your dinner is behind a screen, and you are served with rations like a pauper.

Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825

So that now I have decided to see nothing except in leisure moments and without attaching any importance to all those fiddle-faddles. "

Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

I can't remember your 'seconds,' and 'right-hands,' and fiddle-faddles. "

The Moorland Cottage Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837