"Sucking pig" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arrival, the governor sent them a sucking pig and some other presents, and seemed highly pleased that circumstances had thrown them in his way. "White men do nothing but good," said he, "and I will pray that God may bless you, and send more of ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish
... twelve months. The task of routing out the demons and banishing them devolves chiefly on women. Dressed in their finest array, they go in procession through the village. One of them carries a small sucking pig in a basket on her back; and all of them bear wands, with which they belabour the little pig at the appropriate moment; its squeals help to attract the vagrant spirits. At every house the women dance and sing, clashing castanets or ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... with their hats on at the first hut, abusing each other. 'You're a great sow,' said one; 'and worse than a little sucking pig.' ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
... Day." The big rancher shifted position, and in sympathy the rickety chair groaned dismally. "Dinner was waiting, I remember, a regular old-fashioned New England dinner with a stuffed sucking pig and a big turkey with his drumsticks in the air. Mother and Frances—that's my sister—were waiting, and they sent me running to call father. He was a lawyer, and a great hand to shut himself up and work. I was starved hungry, and I remember I hot-footed it proper ...
— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge
... only just escaped being broken for that gypsy-girl, whom he had bought in her sixth year from encamping gypsies for two dollars and a sucking pig, now, ten years later, did not belong any more to the household, but presided at table when gentlefolk came to dinner. But she still bore that heathen name, which she had received in the reedy thicket. ...
— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai |
