This afternoon went with jemmy to the summit of Yeadie, and took a round of angles.
"My wig and gown to-day, jemmy," said Philip, and he went out in his robes as Deemster.
He made a motion as if to dismiss the man, but jemmy did not go.
Sweethearting with the miner fellows while jemmy's been away?
Foyle had dropped his jemmy and his hand closed over his pistol.
"Faix, it's the first time I ever heard o' goin' round by say," said jemmy.
In this, as in most other of Barny's opinions, Peter and jemmy coincided.
"Why, sure it's not goin' to turn pilot you are," said jemmy, in his simplicity of heart.
Wisha, jemmy, agra, there's no knowing what you'll be when you grows up.
That is a large basket for so young a lad as jemmy to carry.
a popular pet form of the masc. proper name James (in Middle English records, Gemme, Jemme are more common than Jimme). In mid-18c. often associated with effeminacy and male fastidiousness. As "a crowbar" from 1811.