One sits with a harp at his lord's feet; another tames the wild hawk and trains him, teaches him with his little gaffles till the Welsh bird becomes docile.

“What brings you around, boyo?” Deane asked, offering Case a narrow bonbon wrapped in blue-and-white checked paper.

At that period, too, the Jew's long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:up to one's neck in alligators.