"Younker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Well, younker, take care you have not worse dreams than that some night," he said, enigmatically, and wagged his head with a chuckle. "Worse ...
— The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... 'See here, younker, we're on our way to the 'diggin's,' and spect to be thar all summer. Ef the red-skins git any ways troublesome, I'm comin' back arter this y'ar covey. Ef yer don't want to sell him, yer needn't. Ef I bought him, it ain't likely I'd run him ...
— The Huge Hunter - Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies • Edward S. Ellis
... patronizing way; "as anybody knows as has been round the Horn. I didn't sail with Captain Cook, seeing that I was then the boatswain of the Hussar, and she couldn't have made one of Cook's squadron, being a post-ship, and commanded by a full-built captain; but I was in them seas when a younker, and can back Catfall's account of the matter by my largest anchor, in the way of history. D—e, if I think these hillocks would be called even jury mountains, in that quarter of the world. They tell ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... stripling, master, youth, son, minor, junior, youngling, cadet, chap, urchin, bub, sprig, callant, younker, hobbledehoy; ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... feel me and you had trouble, and you got the best of it?" leered the former foreman, then scowled. "But listen to me, younker. Ye're going to run into trouble, and quicker than ye think, at that. That old cigar shaped death-trap won't float—not for long, anyway. All I'm hoping is that ye'll go in for bein' one of the crew ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... "Marcy, younker, whar did ye come from?" was all he could utter. But, no longer the surly man that he had been, he held out his hand to him, and looked more than pleased to ...
— Thankful Rest • Annie S. Swan
... is me! Or storm, or sunshine, is the same to thee. Ah, Mary! lovely was thy slender form, And sweet thy cheerful brow, that knew no storm. Thy steps were graceful on the village-green, As tho' thou had'st some courtly lady been: At church or market, still the gayest lass, Each younker slack'd his speed to see thee pass. At early milking, tuneful was thy lay, And sweet thy homeward song at close of day; But sweeter far, and ev'ry youth's desire, Thy cheerful converse by the ev'ning fire. Alas! no more thou'lt foot the grassy sward! ...
— Poems, &c. (1790) • Joanna Baillie
... Sylla, Marius' years have taught Him how to pluck so proud a younker's plumes; And know, these hairs, that dangle down my face, In brightness like the silver Rhodope, Shall add so haughty courage to my mind, And rest such piercing objects 'gainst thine eyes, That mask'd in folly ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... followed Devilsdust in council, but when he executed their joint decrees and showed himself about the town, he strutted like a peacock, swore at the men and winked at the girls, and was the idol and admiration of every gaping or huzzaing younker. ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... one of the men, and said, "Here, Crossthwaite, take this younker and make a tailor of him. Keep him next you, and prick him with your ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds. |
