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"Slinger" Quotes from Famous Books

... peculiar conditions unchanged for centuries, had moulded the races of men to different forms of government, modes of life, and varieties of avocation. The Roman conqueror of the world knew better than to put in his heavily-armed legions the flying Parthian, the light-armed horseman of Numidia, or the slinger of the Balearic Isles. The American of the past had at his disposal a race capable of being the skirmish line of his march of civilization to wrest a continent from the wilderness. As trappers, hunters, and guides; as fishermen ...

— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... round the edges, worn and thin— Life is a rough old linen slinger. Who has not lost ...

— A line-o'-verse or two • Bert Leston Taylor

... Here, Locke, your back to the door— your face looks like a chalk-mine. There! Now don't be so nervous— we'll cure this fellow's ambition as a gin-slinger. I'll change names with you for a minute. Now, Ringold, go ahead with your story." Then, as the giant took up his tale again: "Listen to him, fellows; look pleasant, please. Remember you're not sitting up with a corpse. A little more ginger, ...

— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach

Words linked to "Slinger" : slinger ring, sling, thrower