"Piggy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pork will waste in boiling. 'I have known,' he says, 'the shrinking of bacon in the pot attributed to the fact of the pig having been killed in the moon's decrease; and I have also known the death of poor piggy delayed or hastened so as to happen during its increase.' Truly the ...
— Storyology - Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore • Benjamin Taylor
... little Piggy was crying and screaming, And over his cheeks the salt tears were streaming, And sadly he grieved as he cast his eyes round, And saw all his brothers with ...
— What became of Them? and, The Conceited Little Pig • G. Boare
... saw such things? The elephant's learning to fly with wings; The hen laid a door-knob instead of an egg; And piggy is dancing a jig ...
— Plays • Alexander Ostrovsky
... pig frisking about his pony, and evidently a self-elected addition to the party of the day. He tried to look stern, and cracked his whip at the creature, but was in a moment obliged to join in the general cheers. Poor piggy soon found a strap round his neck, and was dragged into the background. Scott, watching the retreat, repeated with mock pathos the first verse ...
— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton
... to the Owl, "You elegant fowl, How charmingly sweet you sing! Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the bong-tree grows; And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, His nose, With a ring at the end of ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
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