"Tag on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was together now, and with the imitative power strong in all children and dominant in him, he copied the Badger's growls, snarls, and purrs. Sometimes they played tag on the prairie, but both were ready to rush below at the slightest ...
— Wild Animals at Home • Ernest Thompson Seton
... he could bring one and have Miss Florence pin a fish in the river and a red tag on his blouse to show that ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 • Various
... surprised if that was the way with most battles. It would be fun to run a war without admirals and generals and see how it would come out. I don't believe there'd be much difference. At any rate it looks so, if what the navy says is true, and one of the admirals was away and the other playing tag on the forward deck of the Philadelphia. Rum name for a battle-ship, the Brotherly ...
— Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby
... do a thing to you, you poor trout, when they wished that tag on you, did they?" Billie Earnshaw, the leader of the gang, declared not unkindly. "No matter, old chap! Cheer up! Forget it! ...
— Christopher and the Clockmakers • Sara Ware Bassett
... and the color of her hair. It's horribly business like," replied the detective. "But I'm used to this. We don't often get such a complete one for our records. This list alone is no proof against the girls—even if it does give the list price of their shame, like the tag on a department store article. This woman has been keeping what you might call an employment agency by telephone. When a certain type of girl is wanted, with a certain price—and that's the mark of her swellness, as you might call it—Madame Blanche is called ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball |
