"Splurge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but a splurge," said Jimmy; "sooner or later everybody splurges—shows off! Meshach's jest spilin' with money and he must have a splurge—two hosses and a nigger. If it ain't a splurge I can't tell what ails him to ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
... first three nights in town he slept in one of the little traffic-towers that perch on stilts up above Fifth Avenue. As a matter of fact, it was that one near St. Patrick's Cathedral. He had ridden up the Avenue in a taxi, intending to go to the Plaza (just for a bit of splurge after his domestic confinement). As the cab went by, he saw the traffic-tower, dark and empty, and thought what a pleasant place to sleep. So he asked the driver to let him out at the Cathedral, ...
— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley
... wealthiest young lady in the country, but the Pipers are rich, though they never go and splurge around about it. And I'm living on scholarships and borrowed money from the family—and even after I really start working I probably won't make enough to live on for two or three years at least. And you can't ask ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... thought, midway in a return to his stolid sheep, "I would simply go to sleep and wake up with a headache. And were I to fall as many fathoms deep in love as this Gwyllem ventures, or, rather, as he hurls himself with a splurge, I would perform—I ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... day, Cousin Dempster said. England had had her turn, France had flared up, and now Germany was to splurge just as much as she ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens |
