"True-blue" Quotes from Famous Books
... came this fearsome threat From true-blue Tory throats: "With muzzles if our dogs you fret, You shall ... — Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 • Various
... church-breaker and a murderer. The present Dumfriezers remember and justify the deed, observing it was only a papist church—in evidence whereof, its walls have been so completely demolished that no vestiges of them remain. They are a sturdy set of true-blue Presbyterians, these burghers of Dumfries; men after your father's own heart, zealous for the Protestant succession—the rather that many of the great families around are suspected to be of a different ... — Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott |