"Corking" Quotes from Famous Books
... K. I sent the design up to him when Ernest went in and some new parts ought to be here in a couple of weeks, now. I told Ern to have Hackett deliver them on arrival. It's too complicated to explain to you but I had another corking good idea the day that Dick went. I'm glad Arlington won't get here ... — The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie
... not a moment in pressing my fingers into the hole, and cutting off the run. Then once more corking with the rag, I proceeded to carry out my original design, of making ... — The Boy Tar • Mayne Reid
... be fun! And then, my dear, we'll give some corking dinners, and my beautiful wife will wear blue velvet, or white ... — The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... forks of every size and pattern, from the balance handles and straight blades of to-day, to the wooden haft and curly-nosed cimeter of a century back. Their sharpened appetites make short work of the cold meats and pies. Treble X of somebody's own corking fizzes forth from brown jar and black bottle, and if more is wanted, it is fetched from the neighbouring tavern. Dinner done, the fiddle strikes up, and a dance on the greensward by the young people, while the old ones, stretched ... — Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 - Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 • Various
... now. I guess Marsh succeeded in corking it. Meanwhile all the other plants are working while ... — The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
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