"Jumbo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say sailors are superstitious now," he asserted. "They might have been, but my experience is that they are no more credulous than other people in these days. Anyway, I'm not. Life is a matter of chemistry. There's no mumbo jumbo about it, in my opinion. Chemical analysis has reached down to hormones and enzymes and all manner of subtle secretions discovered by this generation of inquirers; but it's all organic. Nobody has ever found anything that isn't. Existence depends on matter, and when the chemical ...
— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts
... Gower Woodseer to their lunatic talk. He still had his ideas about the association of the pair. 'Hard-headed player of his own game, that Woodseer, spite of his Mumbo-Jumbo-oracle ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... believe you are," said the man in black, staring at me; "but, in connection with this Mumbo Jumbo, I could relate to you a comical story about a fellow, an English servant, I once ...
— The Romany Rye • George Borrow
... ink,—goals for feather-top playing,—and pieces have been hacked out of the edges, trying the sharpness of sundry new knives. The old table is not at all ornamental, but we couldn't get on without it, and we older ones have quite an affection for our old Jumbo. Some pictures—three or four of them by Felix—are hung up on the walls. And now you know how our ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... fourteen dollars a month an' a bullet in your belly," said Troop, from the wheel. "Ease your jumbo a grind." ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling
... Yes, he told me about him. Jumbo! but didn't you all get into a muddle. He had a narrow escape, too—the tall man, you know. Did you know ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch |
