Meaning of Sussexer | Babel Free

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A native or inhabitant of Sussex.

rare

Examples

“The hounds had it all their own way, and the pace was much too quick for the eternal “hold hard!” the prophetic cry of the Sussexers.”

““Are you that same Wentworth Talbot the Sussexers talk about being clever as a painter?””

“Since then, by the kindness of a distinguished Christian lady, I have had the pleasure of spending some twelve days amongst the Sussexers on the coast of Brighton,—concerning whom I may have something to say by and by.”

“The Gazette, of this city, defending itself against the indignation of the Sussex Journal, and excusing its course in opposing the development of the Sussex railroad system, says: “If the loan of the State’s credit was safe, we would favor it.”[…]But the Gazette does not oppose the present demand of the Sussex-ers “on principle.””

“Marshal McMullen had a long but unsuccessful chase after him some time since; but Adams afterward gave himself up to the Sheriff of Sussex county, and suffered 30 days imprisonment for violating the State’s liquor laws. Once out, Adams again set up his “jug tavern.” Deputy Marshal Ainscow captured him this time, though the wily Sussexer nearly gave the officer the slip.”

“This phalanx of stalwart young Sussexers, following to the grave the beloved lady who had given them of the best to be had, material, social, and intellectual, formed a touching feature in a funeral in every other respect exceptional.”

“WHEN I first saw the proposal that Shelley’s native county should celebrate the centenary of his birth by founding a Shelley Library and Museum at Horsham, I laughed—not publicly, because that would have been the act of a spoil-sport, but in my sleeve. The native county in question was Sussex,[…]But Shelley was not the man to claim freedom of enmity, and say nothing about freedom of love. If father and son are to be as free in their relation to one another as hundredth cousins are, so must sister and brother. The freedom to curse a tyrannical father is not more sacred than the freedom to love an amiable sister. In a word, if filial duty is no duty, then incest is no crime. This sounds startling even now, disillusioned as we are by Herbert Spencer, Elie Réclus and other writers as to there being anything “natural” in our code of prohibited degrees; but in Shelley’s time it seemed the summit of impious vice, just as it would to the Sussexers to-day, if they only knew.”

“In this work some of the natives are wide awake enough, for they will give 2s. or so for “birds” in Ireland and in three weeks sell them for 6s. or 7s. each in London in “Parlyment time;” and when this is done by scores of thousands, as is the case, the aggregate profits must amount, as the typical Sussexer will tell you in his moments of leisure, and in his leisurely way, to a “tidy little bit.””

“Middlesex may bid a long farewell to the County Championship. Their team came a dreadful cropper early on in the week, and their crack bowlers, Trott and Roche (foreign imports both), never mention J. T. Hearne, who didn’t take a solitary wicket, were powerless to prevent a severe defeat at the hands of Messrs. Fry, Ranjit, Bland, and Co., of Sussex.[…]But the Sussexers owe their success chiefly to Tate and Cyril Bland — the latter a fast bowler, who, according to that fine writer on cricket as well as great exponent of the game—I allude to C. B. Fry—is “capable of work equal in merit to that of such great bowlers as Richardson and Mold.””

“There’s no need for a coachman, as you won’t be going out at all at present; and the old gardener, whom I’ve taken with the house, of which he is part and parcel, is as stolid and unimaginative a Sussexer as you could find in this Boeotian county.”

“For all practical purposes New Zealanders might be Sussexers. They have the same breed of people and the same breed of sheep, the Southdown breed of sheep having originated in my constituency in the last century.”

““Lot of bleeding socialists, they been and bankrupted their economy building a school for forty kids at Brighton. Then they try and get themselves out of nick by a spot of nifty devaluation, printing a lot of paper groats, see, but people in these parts know just how far you can trust a Sussexer. I heard that a few of those gnomes up in Norwich lost a packet though.””

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