"Blighter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wos blinded, of course, an' 'e sank like a stone, Which wos all that the blighter could do, An' I 'urried to speak to the skipper alone; I found 'im pacin' the quarter-deck, An' I told 'im the truth in every respec' The same ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 9, 1917 • Various
... instead of practising their cricket—it's not good enough. Yet it's difficult for a monitress to interfere. As you say, Cynthia would take a melancholy pride in being persecuted. Look here, Raymonde, you're a young blighter yourself sometimes, but you don't go in for this kind of rubbish. Can't you think of some plan to nip the thing in the bud before it goes further? You're ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... table. The friendly touch, y' know. 'I say,' I said to him, 'I don't know you, but I heard you speak, and I knew at once you were one of these Americans— tell you at once by the beastly queer accent, you know. You are an American, ay—wot?' Wot d' you suppose the blighter said? He said, 'No, I'm an ichthyo'—somethin' ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... "Blighter owes me fourpence, anyway," roars Elf; and I infer that neither of them has a high opinion of 'Arry's character from ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 • Various
... known he would! "You see, your whole family's bound to marry Americans, so I might as well be the one for you," he said. "If you don't take me, Mrs. Main will produce a nephew of hers. I know him—poisonous blighter—and he'll be shoved down your throat, sure as fate. He's some homelier than me, ...
— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... fact, my dear old desk-clerk," he said, "I want to kick up a fearful row, and it hardly seems fair to lug you into it. Why you, I mean to say? The blighter whose head I want on a charger is the ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse |
