"Grizzle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Twenty quid would come in precious handy just now, after all I've dropped lately, and I mean to pouch that prize if I can—so just you sit down, GRIZZLE, and write out what I tell ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., February 7, 1891 • Various
... commonsense it is the poorest kind of business at the present time of life to sit down and grizzle because one proved in the long run not to be a poet. I will not deny a certain inevitable melancholy in the retrospect, taking it all round. Yet even whilst I feel this, there is an inward protest. The loss is not all loss. The game of life is one in which ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray
... at the word, the generous liquid, blushing with deeper hue than even did the landlord's jolly nose, was drained to the uttermost drop, and the cups, turned bottom up, were replaced on the board. As the ring of the metal ceased, Master Jean, grizzle-haired and scarred with the marks of war, rose up and ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray
... "Why grizzle when you want to smile? Pray, what good can you do yourself, or any one else, by going about with a face like a fiddle? Remember Margaret France, and don't block up the window to shut out the stars! Let ...
— A College Girl • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... fifty, burly, thickset, strong as an ox. His hat lay in the bottom of the boat and his head, covered with curly, grizzled hair, was broad and well-shaped. A corresponding grizzle of beard clothed his chin and fringed a straight line of lip. The rest of his face showed the skin sun-dried and lined less from age than a life in the open. Wrinkles radiated from the corners of his eyes, and one, like a fold in the flesh, crossed his forehead in a deep-cut ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner
... you would have made no patient Grizzle. And now, supposing fate had merely assigned you the lot of an old maid, what then? How would you ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell
... into dat big lump o' bone an' grizzle?" demanded Eradicate. "He looks like, he swallowed a volcano, and it just got to wo'kin' ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive - or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails • Victor Appleton
... by Holme is named the "short-bob," and is a plain peruke, imitating a natural head of hair. "Perukes," says Malcolm, in his "Manners and Customs," "were an highly important article in 1734. Those of right gray human hair were four guineas each; light grizzle ties, three guineas; and other colours in proportion, to twenty-five shillings. Right gray human hair, cue perukes, from two guineas; white, fifteen shillings each, which was the price of dark ones; and right gray bob perukes, two guineas and ...
— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews
... more affected and interested by this little dramatic picture, than by many a popular love tale; though, as I said before, I do not think it likely either Abstemia or patient Grizzle stand much chance of being taken for a model. Still I like to see poetry now and then extending its views beyond the wedding-day, and teaching a lady how to make herself attractive even after marriage. There is no great need of enforcing on an unmarried lady the necessity of ...
— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving
... night have I spent in woes * That would grizzle the suckling-babe with fear: But morrowed not morn ere to me there came * 'Aidance ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton |
