"Wrong 'un" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not. [A pause] By Jove, I don't like losing this case. I don't like the admission we backed such a wrong 'un. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... wanted—you understand me, I suppose—'wanted.' But I'll thank you to let me pursue my investigations in the way I choose. Your work shan't suffer. If I don't lay my hands on the thief or thieves in a month's time, then write me down a wrong 'un. If I do round 'em up I'll at once take my leave of you, for I've no use for a man of your ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... 'em there is to go round among so many. But it's always the same with us widows: if we 'appen to 'ave been lucky the first time, we put it down to our own judgment—think we can't ever make a mistake; and if we draw a wrong 'un, as the saying is, we argue as if it was the duty of Providence to make it up to us the second time. Why, I'd a been making a fool of myself three years ago if 'e 'adn't been good-natured enough to call one afternoon when I was out, and 'ook it off with ...
— Idle Ideas in 1905 • Jerome K. Jerome
... I suppose not. [A pause] By Jove, I don't like losing this case. I don't like the admission we backed such a wrong 'un. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the patriot's merits without descending to detail. Outside, the newspaper boys were yelling "Arrest of Misther Balfour-r-r," but the Corporation were no buyers. The populace might be taken in, but official Cork know it was the "wrong 'un," and clave ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.) |
