"Scram" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Operator was asked to ring a long time. Verify this. Don't take any hooey from the telephone company that it's against the rules. It's against the rules in this office for a reporter to come back without what he was sent to get. Scram. ...
— Death Points a Finger • Will Levinrew
... Festus to the hot farmers and yeomen he entertained within, 'as we have vowed to brave danger and death together, so we'll share the couch of peace. You shall sleep here to- night, for it is getting late. My scram blue-vinnied gallicrow of an uncle takes care that there shan't be much comfort in the house, but you can curl up on the furniture if beds run short. As for my sleep, it won't be much. I'm melancholy! A woman has, I may say, got my heart in her ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy
... to his lottery sheet. "Go treat yourself if you wanta play doctor. Go on, scram—before I toss ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey
... fair in love and war. I'd ha' married en just as she did, and if he'd said two words to me about not telling him beforehand anything whatsomdever about my first chap that I hadn't chose to tell, I'd ha' knocked him down wi' the rolling-pin—a scram little feller like he! Any woman ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy
... tail, here—when I always was a man of action! Mercury does have possibilities—plenty of solar power, certainly; plenty of frozen atmosphere on the dark face. Interesting, Frank... Oh, hell, I forgot—there's a letter here for you. And a package. Just arrived... I'll scram, now. Got to go down to the quays. Hold the ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun |
