Crossword-Solution: FOGEYS 6 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

When he beheld those of his fellows who were defined as buffers and fogeys--imperturbable, matter-of-fact, slightly ridiculous beings, past masters in the art of populating homes, schools, and colleges, and present adepts in the science of giving away brides--how he envied them, assuming them to feel as they appeared to feel, with their commerce and their politics, their glasses and their pipes.

They are stupid old fogeys, but they are better than nobody, especially as that handsome governess of the girls always comes with them to be looked at." There was a little pause; Richard broke it by saying: "Do you know, Mimie, I've a notion, if she plays her cards well, she may hook Farquhar!" "Who?" asked Jemima, shortly, though she knew quite well.

They turned me out of Oxford because I had too much sense of humour for the authorities there--beastly set of old fogeys! Objected to my 'chucking' oyster shells at the tutors' windows--good old English custom, fast becoming obsolete.

You see, therefore, how well-balanced we are in this "happy isle, set in a silver sea." The Fogeys are respectful to the young men, and the young men actually admire the Fogeys.

Lance did his best to organise his party, but it was a failure; Fulbert said he had made an engagement, and would not break it; he was not bound to toady old Froggy, nor in bondage to any old fogeys of a dean and chapter; and he walked off the faster for Clement's protest, leaving Lance to roll on the floor and climb the balusters backwards to exhale his desire to follow.