whigmaleeries

Walter Scott, with his usual quick perception of _character_ in buildings, as well as in man, puts an admirable reference to these salient points into the mouth of Andrew Fairservice, who exclaims, 'Ah! it's a brave kirk; nane o' yer whigmaleeries an 'curliwurlies, an' open-steek hems about it. '

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

I don't say that there's not plenty of riff-raff -- the pint-and-a-dram gentry and the soft-heads that are aye reading bits of newspapers, and muddlin 'their wits with foreign whigmaleeries.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

"Do ye let whigmaleeries flimmer in yer noddle at a time like this?"

All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900

Shorter's Quastions an 'preach nae whigmaleeries i' the pairish o '

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

Ah! it's a brave kirk -- nane o 'yere whigmaleeries an curliewurlies and opensteek hems about it -- a' solid, weel-jointed mason-wark, that will stand as lang as the warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it.

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

Ah! it's a brave kirk -- nane o 'yere whigmaleeries and curliewurlies and opensteek hems about it -- a' solid, weel-jointed mason-wark, that will stand as lang as the warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

Fairservice's "whigmaleeries, curliewurlies, and open steek hems" most thoroughly removed!

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

If the latter, then ye maun put a strict watch over a vagrant fancy, and ye'll be quit o 'siccan whigmaleeries. "

The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907