"Trig" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... witty wight, And had o' things an unco slight! Auld Reekie aye he keepit tight And trig and braw; But now they'll busk her like a ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... was kindled in December, 1677, when Captain Zachary Gilliam, a shrewd New England shipmaster, came into the colony in his trig little vessel, "The Carolina," bringing with him, besides the supplies needed by the planters for the winter days at hand, ammunition and firearms which a threatened Indian uprising made necessary for the safety ...
— In Ancient Albemarle • Catherine Albertson
... sign of another craft. Down the coast they steamed toward the beach where Billings had made his crossing in the hydro-aeroplane and just at dusk the lookout announced a light dead ahead. It proved to be aboard the Toreador, and a half-hour later there was such a reunion on the deck of the trig little yacht as no one there had ever dreamed might be possible. Of the Allies there were only Tippet and James to be mourned, and no one mourned any of the Germans dead nor Benson, the traitor, whose ugly story was first told in Bowen ...
— Out of Time's Abyss • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... stages of decrepitude, who seemed only dully conscious of Dan's appearance; but Aunt Winnie, seated in her armchair by the window, started up in tremulous rapture at sight of her boy. Despite her age and infirmity, she was still a trig little body, with snow-white hair waved about a kind old wrinkled face and dim soft eyes, that filled with tears at "Danny's" ...
— Killykinick • Mary T. Waggaman
... Jock! sae winsomely's ye ride, Wi' baith your feet upon ae side; Sae weel ye're harneist, and sae trig, In troth ye ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... trig and tailor-made, in dark green, with a crisp white linen shirtwaist, an immaculate collar, and a ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed |
