"Mutt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and looked at him, aghast. "Good Lord, Cart'—that's the truth! That shows what a mutt I am. It hasn't struck me before. It's ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... bow'd to Christ's no kingdom here. Who sat the nearest, by the words o'ercome, Slept first; the distant nodded to the hum; Then down are roll'd the books, stretch'd o'er 'em lies Each gentle clerk, and mutt'ring seals his eyes. As what a Dutchman plumps into the lakes, One circle first, and then a second makes; What dulness dropt among her sons imprest, Like motion from one circle to the rest: So ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various
... this flaming Mutt, 'Twas at the sign of the Pewter Pot; We call'd for some Purl, and we had it hot, With Gin and ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... Deep mutt'ring thunders soon were heard, Dark shadows gathered round; The trees, at intervals, were stirred By gusts of ...
— The Snow-Drop • Sarah S. Mower
... the Rigid Forefinger and warned him that he was merely a Grain of Dust and a Weakling and a poor juvenile Mutt whose Mission in Life was to Lie Down ...
— Knocking the Neighbors • George Ade
... seem rather fresh for me to tell you how I shall miss you," he said. "I said that first day that I didn't know how to tell you how I—well, how I felt about you giving a mutt like me that big chance. You never thought I didn't know how little I did know, did you?" he inquired ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... "Was that mutt a gentleman friend of yours, kid, or was he some fresh guy? 'Cause, if he was playing the fool, I'll break into the game and go for his blood," ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... breeding, and position to augment Honey's initiative, enterprise, audacity, and charm. Billy Fairfax offered other contrasts quite as striking. On his physical side, he was shapelessly strong and hopelessly ugly, a big, shock-headed blond. On his personal side "mere mutt-man" was the way one girl put it, "too much of a damned gentleman" Honey Smith said to ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore
... by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, 105 Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, ...
— Selections from Five English Poets • Various
... Puritan rule, the picture-shows are free to keep open. The law permits "sacred concerts"—which, under the benevolent sway of Tammany, has come to mean any sort of vaudeville; so what we have is a free rein to the imbecilities of "Mutt & Jeff" and the obscenities of Anna Held and Gaby Deslys—while we bar the greatest moralists of our times, such as ...
— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair |
