"Ripper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... minute Barlow himself appeared at the head of the steps with the ladies' remaining wraps, and confirmed their report in person. "I tell you," he said, wiping his forehead, "it's a ripper." ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... that her five years of seniority, and the existence of her eleven-year-old son, had, to his mind, separated her from him by something like a generation. He had found her a ripper as to looks, awfully jolly to talk to and no end of ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... quite as pretty as she is, and as nice, too, though in a different way. And there's the oldest one—the wife of the naval officer, I'm not sure but you would like her the best of the three. She's a ripper in looks,—tall, you know, with lots of go and energy, and yet as sweet and womanly as can be; you'd like her very much, you'd ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge
... glad I'm coming into your House, because the old Demon is such a ripper; and he and I have been talking things over. He's as mad keen as I am about games, and although the Manorites have not played in a cock-house match at cricket or footer for years, still there is a chance for us at Torpids next term. You'll play, Verney. You've improved a lot, so the Demon says, ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell
... that the favorable or adverse policy of Providence is quite irrespective of human conduct, There is no moral discrimination. If Grace Darling and Jack the Ripper were travelling by the same train, and it met with an accident, everybody knows that their chances of death are precisely equal. If there were any difference it would be in favor of Jack, who seems very careful of his own safety, and would ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote
... was in the same platoon with him; didn't know much about him except that he was a very decent sort; no, knew nothing about his people or his home, although he remembered—yes, there was a girl. Wally had shown him her photograph once, "and a real ripper she is too." Didn't know if Wally was engaged to her, or anything more about her, and certainly not ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... the Ripper!" exclaimed Rose. "And Charlie Farson is all alone in her. Maybe he'll give ...
— The Motor Boys on the Pacific • Clarence Young |
