Teagues

It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings, so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from the 'Teagues' and 'dear joys' who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.

Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings; so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from the 'Teagues' and 'dear joys,' who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.

Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings, so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from the 'Teagues' and 'dear joys' who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings, so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from the 'Teagues' and

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

The ostensible pretext for this mayhem is rival nationalisms, but the street language used by opposing rival tribes consists of terms insulting to the other confession (“Prods” and “Teagues”).

'God Is Not Great' 2007

‘Teagues’ and ‘dear joys’ who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.

Waverley 2004

Edgeworth, so different from the ` ` Teagues '' and ` ` dear joys '' who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.

The Waverley 1877

I wish we had twenty such, to put our Teagues into some sort of discipline. ''

A Legend of Montrose 1871

Wherever he may have been born, it is impossible to doubt where he was bred; for his phraseology is precisely that of the Teagues who were, in his time, favourite characters on our stage.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Syphax against the governor, his country, and his family: which is so stupid that it is below the wisdom of the O--- s, the Macs, and the Teagues; even Eustace Commins himself would never have gone to

Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746