"Lam" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Euginny is des' de spit er her ma, en it 'ud mek Ole Miss tu'n in her grave ter hear tell 'bout her gwines on. De quality en de po' folks is all de same ter her. She ain' no mo' un inspecter er pussons den de Lord is—ef Ole Miss wuz 'live, I reckon she'd lam 'er twel she wuz black ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... you say another word about it, I'll lam a battery coil at you—'b'gorry'—as Mr. Hooper says. Well, now, reckon I'd better turn up and thread ...
— Radio Boys Loyalty - Bill Brown Listens In • Wayne Whipple
... away, or a deaf ear turned to the cry of these "young children asking bread, and no man giving it them?" (Lam. iv. 4.) ...
— God's Answers - A Record Of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the - Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada • Clara M. S. Lowe
... you hear it? And did you see the way he dropped his feet to the road—just like he'd struck a stone wall. And he's got savvee enough to know from now on that that same stone wall will be always there ready for him to lam into." ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... day when he asked one of the girls to tie the ribbon in his cuff she got so jealous that I thought she was going to give the poor kid a lam on the lamp. What she can see in that tenor is beyond me. What anybody can see in a tenor has got me guessing, for that matter. Wilbur says that's just the way with temperamental people, and he lost a job once just ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
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