"Swat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... loons that jibe an' sneer At spiritual guests an' a' sic gear, At the Glasnock mill hae swat wi' fear, An' look'd ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... The minute a man tries to break the ice with this little lady, it's a freeze-out. Now what did I say so bad? In business, too. Never seen the like. It's like trying to swat a fly to come down on you at the right minute. But now, with you for a ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... piece of land on spec, Plow and sow, There's a place for every peck, You can grow. Swat the Kaiser in the neck, Issue him a passage check ...
— War Rhymes • Abner Cosens
... batter and swat flies for Solomon," suggested Sarah. "He'd like that, wouldn't he? I could ride on his back and ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... an' ay she swat— I wat she made nae jaukin; Till something held within the pat, Good Lord! but she was quaukin! But whether 'twas the deil himsel, Or whether 'twas a bauk-en', Or whether it was Andrew Bell, She did na wait on talkin To spier ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... feet of the other, and at last he applied his ear to the keyhole of the casket containing the Ashes of Madame Blavatsky. When the Inquiring Soul had completed his course of instruction he declared himself the Ahkoond of Swat, fell into the baleful habit of standing on his head, and swore that the mother who bore him was a pragmatic paralogism. Wherefore he was held in high reverence, and when the two other gentlemen were hanged ...
— Fantastic Fables • Ambrose Bierce
... a fearful martinet to teach young Muirtown French, and a Heidelberg man with several degrees and four swordcuts on his face to explain to Muirtown the mysteries of the German sentence. Indignant boys, who have heard appetising tales of the days which are gone, are compelled to "swat" at Continental tongues as if they were serious languages like Latin and Greek, and are actually kept in if they have not done a French verb. They are required to write an account of their holidays in German, and are directed to ...
— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren
... river the Muztagh-Karakoram range and the bleak salt plateau beyond that range reaching almost up to the Kuenlun mountains. To the west of the Indus they include those spurs of the Hindu Kush which run into Chitral and Dir, the Buner and Swat hills, the Safed Koh, the Waziristan hills, the Suliman range, and the low hills in the trans-Indus districts of ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie
... a good, honest, patriotic man, and we like him. But he never stole second base in all his life and he could not swat Mickey Welch's down curves over the left-field fence. Therefore we say again, as we have said many times before, that much as we revere Benjamin Harrison's purity and amiability, we cannot but accord the tribute of our ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... A Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour. By H C. THOMSON. With over 50 Illustrations reproduced from Photographs, and important Diagrams and Map. Second Edition, ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... and distinct—the picture of his five thousand dollar note. Whatever else happened, he couldn't financially afford, now or in the immediate future, to break with Mirabelle. She would impale him with bankruptcy as ruthlessly as she would swat a fly; she would pursue him, in outraged pride, until he slept in his grave. And on the other hand, if certain things did happen—at the Orpheum—how could he spiritually afford to pass the remainder of his life with a militant reformer who wouldn't ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall
... reply. "I have a swat of work. There is ballast for you, though, over there by the shed." Bob Haines was the ballast indicated. He was putting the final touches on an aeroplane propellor to which he had administered a coat ...
— The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps • James R. Driscoll
... Swat! The compact roll of bank-notes struck the stranger in the face, then bounded to the floor at Hal's feet. The latter kicked the money away ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants - or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers • H. Irving Hancock
... to Bethlehem come was, He swat: he had gone faster than a pace. He found Jesu in a simple place, Between an oxe and an asse; Ut Hoy! For in his pipe he made so ...
— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude |
