"Toon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we're goin' to hear somethin' like. The New Jersey Harmonic Society is agoin' to sing 'When first I saw her face in 1616.' I don't like none of your operas. That 'inflammation' may be a big thing,' but give me some old-fashioned toon." ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 • Various
... because he had, Back in the caverns iv his 'ead, A 'oller tooth run ravin' mad. Pore Trigger up 'n' down the trench Was jiggin' like a blithered loan, 'N' every time she give a wrench You orter seen the beggar blench, You orter 'eard him play a toon. ...
— 'Hello, Soldier!' - Khaki Verse • Edward Dyson
... said, 'Now, Ogilvy, you're a smart cheel, an' ken aboot war and strategy and the like: I charge ye to organize the men o' the toon without delay, and tak' what steps ye think adveesable. Meanwhile, I'll away and ripe oot a' the airms and guns I can find. Haste ye, lad, an' mak' as muckle noise ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne
... London, and brought toon tricks wi' 'em—for I never heard o' such goings on as theirs ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren
... in the kirk, while I am—weel, what you see me; but, for all that, I know more about the fundamentals of doctrine than he does. I know the second catechism by heart, and I could put any meenister in this toon to shame. Ay, man, but if you want to hear preaching you must go to Scotland. It's there that the meenisters are groonded in the faith. In these English kirks they are very lax in the faith." And again the man laughed ...
— The Day of Judgment • Joseph Hocking
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