Humphreys took an almost childish delight in gold braid and flummery.

Enough of this sort of flummery, my sweet nephew; I don't like it.

She gazed at them, half-feeling the flummery petals against the palm of her hand.

He has sowens and milk,' (oatmeal flummery) every night for his supper.

That's flummery, and you know and the Highness knows it.

I said them because I felt them, and I hate flummery and thick- headedness.

What a blessing to see a nice clean English potato again without any flummery!

It was, in his bluntly stated opinion, a waste of breath: indulgence, flummery, lies.

There were no Christmas trees, of course, nor much of the other flummery of today.

There was no hocus-pocus or flummery; the whole proceeding was as simple as playing dominoes.

So should church ritual -it obscured the radicalism of the gospel with nostalgic flummery.

But there's too much flummery, and he was a hundred times more than all that.

Readers will no doubt think that this is official flummery; and so in fact it is.

That was a nice bit of flummery, and went down the throats of the people delightfully.

And the result of all this flummery was:

We all know what all that flummery means.