Encyclopædia of human nature and physiognomy .. (1889)
Willis, A. E. (Alfred E.) · Chicago, Loomis & co. · leaf 497
knownhim? was the question asked. Why, said she, I have knownhim two or three weeks ! N. P. Willis, the poet, says a flirt is likea dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drinkfrom it, but no one desires to carry it away. Though flirts are generally shallow-brained and of a low… … FLIRTATION. 415 stand their business, and prefer city life to that of the country; andthe larger and gayer the city the better. A young woman of aflirty nature, stopping at a boarding-house where I was in Phila-delphia, said she would rather live in New York than in heavenalmost, though she had…
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