"Cutthroat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Suez, the spice of romance with his daily bread. His last days, moreover, had been too crowded for him to ruminate over their taste. But it was not every day that he squatted on the same rug with a scarlet-bearded old cutthroat of a mountain chief. So it was that his more or less casual lark visibly took on, from the perspective of this castle in Luristan, as he unrolled a gaudy emblazonment of eagles at the top of the parchment, a new and curious color. For below the eagle he came upon what he darkly ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... has thus described the incident: "It were a band o' cutthroat robbers an' runnygades from the Ohio country—Hurons, Algonks an' Mingos an' all kinds o' cast off red rubbish with an old Algonk chief o' the name o' Splitnose. They stuffed their hides with the meat till they was stiff as a foundered hoss. ...
— In the Days of Poor Richard • Irving Bacheller
... one contemptuously. "That fellow has cutthroat written all over him. Don't see any ...
— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish |
