...The Autobiography of Cockney Tom, Showing his Struggles through Life,and proving this Truth of the Old Saying that Honesty is the best Policy. Set in England, South Australia and the goldfields of Victoria Australia in the 1800's. (Summary from t...

...llenges more satisfying even than playing twelve simultaneous boards against Russian chess champion Turgieff. His sidekick Joe is a fourteen year old Cockney boy, whom Crewe saved from a life of crime by hiring him as a messenger-boy and shadower. Other whodunit elements: clues galore, suspects in abundance, an inquest, a trial, and an elegant resolution. (Summary by Maikk...

...ries in London. While not quite up to the standard we have come to expect from previous Cleek adventures, it is still quite a jolly romp, and Cleek's cockney sidekick Dollops is always good fun. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)...

...ty, and resilience of those who suffered and struggled all around me, including my own family. We were bombed for 57 nights during the blitz. We, the Cockney's, lived by a code of honor, do as you would be done by. We believed in a fair sense of justice and were victims of social inequality. There were two wars, one for the rich and the other for the poor working class and...

...rue spirit and love of London; they fought and died for their country when called upon doing so. The docklands played a huge part in the lives of the Cockney’s for many years. I often have memories of myself and my sister when we would take lunch to our Dad, who by then worked at the Docks, every Saturday. There were a lot of Chinese coolies working on the ships. ...

...d help it. The little energy and eagerness that crop up show themselves in cockney cupidity and business “push.” Even the policemen and the chapels ar...

...about somebody else?s work, which they would not do if they themselves could help it. The little energy and eagerness that crop up show themselves in cockney cupidity and business ?push.?...

...s, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejec...

...d Superintendent Maverick Narkom of Scotland Yard attempt to unravel, with, of course, the help of the irrepressible and ever-hungry Dollops, Cleek's cockney sidekick. This full-length mystery is a welcome return for Hamilton Cleek, whom we first met in /cleek-the-man-of-the-forty-faces-by-thomas-w-hanshew/ Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces . (Summary by Ruth Golding)...

...uld be a better move than this; when Smyrna came, and rebuked all mutinous Cockneys into silence. Some men may read this who are in want of a sensati... ...t it shines at all. There is no cursing and insulting of Giaours now. If a Cockney looks or behaves in a particularly ridiculous way, the little Turks... ...ism becomes absurd instead of sublime, and is only a foolish expression of Cockney wonder. They still 53 Thackeray occasionally beat a man for going ... ...not escaped ill-treatment either. Numberless ships’ companies, travelling cockneys, &c. , have affixed their rude marks upon it. Some daring ruffian ...

...d for a glance of pride Is the beautiful face as it passes; The cockneys nod to each other aside, The coxcombs lift their glasses. ... ... like to have you in a box. Some of you country fellows beat any number of cockneys. You do!” Tom received the compliment stubbornly on his guard, and... ...omage that he heard. He repeated to Lucy Diaper Sandoe’s verses— “The cockneys nod to each other aside, The coxcombs lift their glasses,” 2... ...r rick, you two,” said Adrian. “Ar- range that we go. You haven’t seen the cockney’s Paradise. Abjure Blazes, and taste of peace, my son.” After some ...

..., and arose awkwardly to his feet. The man who had spoken to him was clearly a Cockney, with the clean lines and weakly pretty, almost effeminate, fac... ...her. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney’s soul and missed the shadow for the substance. “And whom have ... ...nswer, as he turned partly away from me and cried out, “Cooky! Oh, Cooky!” The Cockney popped out of the galley. “Where’s that boy? Tell him I want hi... ... pain in my knee, and I sank down helplessly at the break of the poop. But the Cockney had not pursued me. “Look at ’im run! Look at ’im run!” I could... ...skey you’ll find in my berth.” I returned with the articles in time to hear the Cockney hinting broadly that there was a mystery about him, that he mig... ...our immortal souls and afraid to die. At sight of a sharp knife and a cowardly Cockney the clinging of life to life overcomes all your fond foolishnes... ... to whet it on the stone. I had looked for almost any sort of explosion on the Cockney’s part, but to my surprise he did not appear aware of what I wa... ...o nothing I had gained. As the days went by, Smoke’s prophecy was verified. The Cockney became more humble and slavish to me than even to Wolf Larsen. ... ...d, of immortality. It mastered it in you (you cannot deny it), because a crazy Cockney cook sharpened a knife. “You are afraid of him now. You are afr...

...one annihilated city, Where thousand loves, and ties, and duties grew? Cockneys of London! Muscadins of Paris! Just ponder what a pious pastim... ... or scorn Toward the great city.— Ye who have a spark in Your veins of Cockney spirit, smile or mourn According as you take things well or ill...

...nking face, He first the snuffbox opened, then the case, *Residence of a cockney ; unfashionable addresss. 42 And thus broke out My Lord, why, w...

...nd a couple of the designs contain great humor. The first rep- resents the Cockney hero, who, “like a bird, was singing out while sitting on a tree.” ... ...the admirable way in which Mr. Cruikshank has depicted Irish character and Cockney char- acter; English country character is quite as faithfully delin...

...have still asked too little, I know,” said he, “but believe 251 Dumas me, your grace, I would rather have died than allow myself to be governed by av... ...ed, or burnt, these two windows let for twenty pistoles.” “Oh!” said Raoul, with horror. “It is disgusting, is it not?” said D’Artagnan. “Oh!” repeate...

...allads, who charmed the ears there; the country dances, formed by bouncing cockneys and cockneyesses, and executed amidst jumping, thumping and laught... ...uldn’t forget him!” cried out Becky, “that selfish hum- bug, that low-bred cockney dandy, that padded booby, who had neither wit, nor manners, nor hea...

...tate had made him, and the reader must not imagine because he was a little Cockney cad, that he was absolutely incapable of grasping the idea of the B... ...k at you, I know I want a wash. Gott!”—he stifled a vehement yawn— ”What a Cockney tadpole of a ruffian you look!” “Can we get any grub?” asked Bert. ... ...trifle too large for him. He thrust that back to reveal his staring little Cockney face, still scarred upon the brow. “Gaw!” he whispered. He stared. ... ...were foreign soldiers, if neither perhaps had adequate English? His native Cockney freedom flowed too generously for him to think of that, and surely ... ...erman private. Bert went back, white and scared, but re- solved by all his Cockney standards upon one thing. He was bound in honour to “go for” the Pr... ...aw the bent and bandaged figure in limping flight before him, he found his Cockney softness too much for him again; he could neither shoot nor pursue.... ... for him to think very much of what might happen to an indefinite-spirited Cockney without credential who arrived 207 H G Wells on an Asiatic flying-... ...d darkened and lost, through a civilisation in its death agony, our little Cockney errant went and found his Edna! He found his Edna! He got back acro...

...stand their watch though they could do but little. The captain was a young cockney, who, a few years before, had emigrated to Australia, and, by some ... ...all. His eyes were made to see with, and not for ogling. Compared with the Cockney, he was grave, and rather taciturn; but there was a deal of good ol... ...Tonoi, cooked the dinner; and, after we had all partaken thereof, both the Cockney and Zeke threw themselves into one of the hammocks, inviting us to ... ...s, he endeavoured to negotiate an exchange of muskets with Shorty; but the Cockney was proof against his blandishments; at last, he intrusted his weap... ... he cried, out of breath. “A mile or two h’off, by this time,” replied the Cockney. “Lord, Paul I you ought to’ve sent an ‘ailstone into that little b... ...of us sprang after them; resolved to have another shot at all hazards. The Cockney darted among some bushes; and, a few mo- ments after, we heard the ... ...eath of the morning, I worked away like a good fellow. As for Zeke and the Cockney, they seemed mightily pleased at this evidence of our willingness t... ...nd wonder; and the doctor was con- sidered nothing short of a prodigy. The Cockney found out that he (the doctor) could read a book upside down, witho...

...ss Churm, but she was an ample heroine of romance. She was only a freckled cockney, but she could represent everything, from a fine lady to a shep- he...

...ndly bias to our judgments; and his person was universally familiar to the cockneys, which gave him, with the whole London public, a temporary popu- l... ... will hunt in that warren, he ought to murder a couple at one time; if the cockneys chosen should be tailors, he will of course think it his duty, on ...

... Court, Willie Woodley being also of the party. The afternoon was charming, the famous horse chestnuts were in blossom, and Lord Lambeth, who quite en...