It was really a good cigar and the old man, giving me a little blarney, said, 'Surre, that cigare is a birrd.'

But there are some expressions about his eyes that I cannot like; and I think there is a little blarney about them both.

I see you had some of the chicken, she said, a little grimly, I thought, and I realized a little blarney was called for.

"You little blarney," he smiled, pleased nevertheless.

"It's a little blarney that'll jist suit th' old lady," she said to herself, as she made her first conciliatory advance.