"Butcher block" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... frankness I should look also for a knife in the back to be included in his excellency's favors," commented Don Ruy. "Name of the Devil!—what have I done since I entered the town, but hold hands with one woman in the dark—and be made to look as if I had been laid across a butcher block on a busy day! Hell take such a city to itself! I've no fancy for halting over long in a pit where a gentleman's amusements are so little understood. If the Dona of the scarf were aught but an amiable maniac the thing would be different. I would stay—and I would find her and together ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan |
