"Slinger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... peculiar conditions unchanged for centuries, had moulded the races of men to different forms of government, modes of life, and varieties of avocation. The Roman conqueror of the world knew better than to put in his heavily-armed legions the flying Parthian, the light-armed horseman of Numidia, or the slinger of the Balearic Isles. The American of the past had at his disposal a race capable of being the skirmish line of his march of civilization to wrest a continent from the wilderness. As trappers, hunters, and guides; as fishermen ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall
... round the edges, worn and thin— Life is a rough old linen slinger. Who has not lost ...
— A line-o'-verse or two • Bert Leston Taylor
... Here, Locke, your back to the door— your face looks like a chalk-mine. There! Now don't be so nervous— we'll cure this fellow's ambition as a gin-slinger. I'll change names with you for a minute. Now, Ringold, go ahead with your story." Then, as the giant took up his tale again: "Listen to him, fellows; look pleasant, please. Remember you're not sitting up with a corpse. A little more ginger, ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... woman that has to work. Of course most women do—and at worse than anything in the stores and factories. As between being a drudge to some dirty common laborer like most women are, and working in a factory even, give me the factory. Yes, give me a job as a pot slinger even, low as that is. Oh, I hate working people! I love refinement. Up to Murray's last night I sat there, eating my lobster and drinking my wine, and I pretended I was a lady—and, my, ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... backin' up the law, not moral sentiment, ye cross-eyed beer-slinger, an' if ye try edgin' up ther another step I 'll ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... answered, slowly. "Who'd think that you could have become a writer, and I a hash slinger? Making ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson |
