"Loony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... awaiting the message that should speed his departure. Mr. Humphreys, then, cannot be blamed for complaining with feeling and profanity that of all the damidjits he had ever seen in his life, Peter Champneys was about the worst. Loony was no name for him, and what was to become of such a chump he didn't know. "If this thing keeps up, he'll be drooling before he's forty, and we'll have to hire a nigger to feed him out of a papspoon," ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... "I wonder who's loony now?" hummed Dave to himself, as he marched briskly along on his way to the office of the officer in charge. There be picked up two of the report slips, dipping a ...
— Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... old man, taking upon himself the burden of the explanation. "None of us up here ever saw the gal before. Neither Prudence nor me nor Ida May. She's loony!" ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... them. 'I'm the finest apple on the tree,' yet no one has picked them for all their labels, because every one has guessed that they aren't—That crab apple labelling itself a pippin and daring to laugh at you! And that long loony Silas Grangerson, a man without a penny to bless himself with, a creature whose character is just kinks. Well, I'm sure—pass me the butter—laughing at you. And what were they laughing at pray? Aren't you straight and the best looking man in Charleston? ...
— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole
... way among decent business people now? Why, when Marise and I were first trying to get it clear in our own heads, we kept it pretty dark, I tell you, that we weren't in it only for what money we could make, because we knew how loony we'd seem to anybody else. But don't you see any signs that lately maybe the same idea is striking lots of ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
