flummery

How To Use flummery In A Sentence

• flummery" not theirs by birth, and accept it as the still more natural due of their possessive instincts. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
• Rice flummery, which is a very nice side dish, is made by mixing a quarter of a pound of ground rice with a little cold milk, and then adding a pint of new milk which has been boiled, with a stick of cinnamon and a bit of lemon-peel; flavour it with sugar and a teaspoonful of peach-water. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
• Essentially, the whole country goes nuts for a week or two, until, as usual, we are vanquished with all the flummery of a re-enactment of 1066.
• All this flummery was, as we all know, meaningless.
• One is a glossary of cookery terms (have you ever heard of “flummery”?), and the other is an illustrative listing of antique cooking implements (do you know what a “raisin seeder” looks like?) Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
• In any case, Howard's discovery was a timely one, because he has just flimmed and flammed his way through the longest week of flummery of his career.
• Dutch flummery is made by boiling two ounces of isinglass in three half-pints of water very gently for half an hour. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
• It's fitting and proper and prudent for both the politicians and the media to wonder whether all the finagling and flummery is worth it, just for another pro team, of which we've already got at least a few.
• It had been an enchanted place where they ate roast lamb flavored with rosemary and rowanberry pudding and flummery—the best kind, with nutmeg and cream. The Sea of Trolls
• Strip away the constitutional flummery and you're left with a governing party stating what it's going to do in the upcoming parliament.