thirdsman

As a "thirdsman" to Flaubert and Dumas _fils_, he shows some interesting differences.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century 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.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 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

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century 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.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century 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.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century 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.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

Put up, both of you, or I shall lug out as thirdsman, and prove perhaps the worst devil of the three! —

Woodstock 1855

` ` Ay, but MacCallummore's blood wadna sit down wi 'that; there was risk of Andro Ferrara coming in thirdsman.' '

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 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. ''

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

Put up, both of you, or I shall lug out as thirdsman, and prove perhaps the worst devil of the three!

Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801