"Old-timer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rather than the prairies. He is temperamentally a man of Ontario, where he was born; solidly businesslike and persistent. He glorifies hard work. And he went West at a time when the law of hard work was just coming to replace the old-timer's creed of hanging on and waiting for something—usually a railway—to turn up. He came up with the farmer of 60-cent wheat in a part of the country where everything that the farmer had to buy in order to produce that kind of wheat was high in cost. Cheap wheat and dear wherewithals ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... big difference in doctors, I tell you," said an old-timer to me the other day. "You think you know something about 'em, but you are still in the fluff and bloom, and kindergarten of life, Wait till you've ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... of D Company. He's a new guy. He's out of a bunch of replacements that come up for D Company only the day before yistiddy. Well, for a green hand he certainly handled himself like one old-timer." ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... from Quimby the Great Idea, or only the little one, the old-timer, the ordinary mental-healing-healing by ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... question yesterday," said Kansas, severely, but with a twinkle in his black eyes that belied his tone. "This here would be mighty serious business for you if the Sheriff was in town. Jake's so particular about being legal an' all. Yessir, Racey, old-timer, I expect you'd spend some time in the ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... enthusiasm of an old-timer welcoming a newcomer to any country. Gold! Plenty of it! They told us, in breathless snatches, the most marvellous tales—one sailor had dug $17,000 in a week; another man, a farmer from New England, ...
— Gold • Stewart White
... my car on the road and forced me to drive him in through the private gate. Boy, was I ever glad to see you, old-timer!" ...
— Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X • Victor Appleton
... associates. "I went to jail when I was fourteen because I wanted a knife to make kite sticks, and I stole a razor from a barber. I was bitter when they steered me into a lockup in Hickory Street. It was full of bugs and crooks, and they put me in the same cell with an old-timer named 'Red' Waters; who was one of the slickest safe-blowers around in those days. Red took a shine to me, found out I had a head piece, and said their gang could use a clever boy. If I'd go in with him, I could ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... of the Blackfeet, Major George Steell, is an old-timer in the country and understands Indians very thoroughly. In one respect, he has done more for this people than any other man who has ever had charge of them, for he has been an uncompromising enemy of the whiskey traffic, ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell
... with a low whistle. "You are sure some old-timer. Let's see—that's over fifteen hundred days ago. When did you ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... aloud with the comic quaintness of the director. There a little lady, new to the stage, is made to feel at home and confident. The proud old-timer is sufficiently ameliorated to approve of the change suggested. The leading lady trembles with the shock of realization imparted by the stout little man with chubby smile who, seated alone in the darkened auditorium, conveys his meaning as with invisible wires, quietly, quaintly, simply, and ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman |
