"Defalcate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grew intense, so quietly one day, He gave his share-holders the slip, an' made his get-a-way. Jest like a criminal he skipped, an' aimed to defalcate The Chewed-ear Jenkins Hirsute Propagation Syndicate. His guilty secret burned him, an' he sought the city's din: "I've got to get a wig," sez he, "to cover up my sin. It's growin', growin' night an' day; it's most amazin' hair"; An' when he looked at it that night, ...
— Rhymes of a Rolling Stone • Robert W. Service |
