"Once-over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going to stay in New York long," I said, taking another look at the letter. "He's headed for Washington. Going to give the nibs there the once-over, apparently, before taking a whirl at the Diplomatic Service. I should say that we can win this lad's esteem and affection with a lunch and a couple of ...
— Death At The Excelsior • P. G. Wodehouse
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... might as well give her the once-over, now I'm here," Johnny added with a fine air of indifference, and urged Sandy ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
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... off corner of his mouth to loosen up again, and for a second his deep-set brown eyes steady down as he gives me the once-over. Kind of an amused, quizzin' look it is, but more or less foxy. He crosses his legs and hitches up his ...
— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford
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... what I got when I first rode out on the ranch? I got just about the once-over from every brute there, and that was all. If one of them ranch hands had ever ogled me a second time I'd have known it all right, but I never caught one of the scoundrels at it. First I said: "Now, ain't that fine and chivalrous?" Then I got wise. It wasn't none of this here boasted ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
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... didn't take me long to see that we wasn't any more. Them people was all wrapped up in the lad with the gold name-plate, and they was rootin' for him frantic. Last thing he done was to give his eighteen-carat squaw-catcher the once-over with his buckskin buffer, then he shined it at the chief's girl and trotted down to the startin'-line. I noticed that she glued her big-and-liquids on him and ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
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... she was—brought her home—aunt following in that hearse with its five-foot cushions she always rides in," Hunt explained. And then: "Well, I suppose you've got to give me the once-over. Hurry up, and ...
— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott
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