"Spiel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who got off the spiel about the moon. I have outgrown that sort of thing. In my younger days I might have—well, we won't be hard on O'Brien. He is not a bad fellow at heart, and I believe he will try to do better in future. Now, as it seems to be ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald
... did the work, and Jimmie the Monk crumpled forward, with a leg which was never again to lead in another Bowery "spiel" or ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball
... he won't spiel anything to the cops about this row. He's an ex-soldier, a Captain, and he's nuts on the girl. That's why he dipped into this mess—trying to save her—see? Maybe he won't be so keen now, after the song and dance she gave him up stairs. I'm half inclined to ...
— The Case and The Girl • Randall Parrish
... hair. And they showed me into a shiny room, just him and her and me, And the Prince he was pleased and friendly-like, and he calls for drinks for three. And I shows them my battered biscuit-tin, and I makes my modest spiel, And they laughed, they did, when I opened the lid, ...
— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service
... of Berlin there are four types of receptions or cours, the latter being the French word which has clung to these state functions ever since the reign of Frederick the Great. They are the "Defiler-Cour," the "Spiel-Cour," the "Sprech-Cour" and the "Trauer-Cour." The first, namely, the "defiler cour"—from the French word defiler, to file past—is the Berlin counterpart of Queen Victoria's drawing-rooms at Buckingham ...
— The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) • Mme. La Marquise de Fontenoy
... sure—I'll stop by his house and see." I'd just as soon steer clear of this "who's going" business, so I start into a long spiel about how we're studying marine life in biology, and we have to take some notes at the aquarium. Mom is swallowing this pretty well, but Pop comes into the kitchen just then and gives me ...
— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville
... peacefully, major," rasped Colonel Sagen. "You've been 'cleared' for an explanation—and if you're smart, you'll listen to the spiel and play ball." ...
— Next Door, Next World • Robert Donald Locke |
