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Not stand shill-I-shall-I, as he does; but put you and himself both out of your pain. —
Pamela 2006
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"Laughed at me; played shill-I-shall-I with my devotion; vowed she would not marry me till I had been killed in the wars to prove I was a hero; smiled on me one minute and scorned me the next."
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912
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-- Not stand shill-I-shall-I, as he does; but put you and himself both out of your pain.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725
Gammerstang commented on the word shill-I-shall-I
(adverb) - A corrupt reduplication of shall I? - the question of a man hesitating. To stand shill-I-shall-I is to continue hesitating and procrastinating.
--Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
January 16, 2018