"Whang" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in transcription for Hara-moran, or Kara-moran, the Mongul or Tartar name of the Hoang-ho, or Whang river, near, and communicating with which, Hoaingan, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... any one of us being the wiser. And that creature, whatever it may have been, was carrying the ham away when it thought you must be following below; so what does it do but let out a screech of fury, and whang, the ham straight ...
— Chums of the Camp Fire • Lawrence J. Leslie
... grew. Then one, more impetuous than the rest, swung clear his sword and drew it. For the first time Tian understood that treachery was afoot. He looked round for any of his band, but found that he was as a foam-tossed cork upon a turbulent Whang Hai. Cries of anger and derision filled the air; threatening arms waved encouragement to each other to begin. The one with drawn sword raised it above his head and made a step. Then Tian, recognizing that he was unarmed, and that a decisive moment had arrived, stooped low and ...
— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah
... the shuddering shoo and the blinketty-blanks When the yungalung falls from the bough In the blast of a hurricane's hicketty-hanks On the hills of the hocketty-how! Give the rigamarole to the clangery-whang, If they care for such fiddlededee; But the thingumbob kiss of the whangery-bang ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... you are," said the girl, with a roguish laugh, as she brought Robbie a great whang over the ear ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... known in time," said Douglas, "we might have had him privily waited upon as he entered the Borders; there are strapping lads enough would have rid us of him for the lucre of his spur-whang. [Footnote: Spur-whang—Spur-leather.] But to the saddle, James Stewart, since so the phrase goes. I hear your trumpets. Bound to horse and away—we shall soon see which nag ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott
... redheaded puncher gleamed with excitement. His six-gun was in his hand. By the look of him he was about ready to whang ...
— Crooked Trails and Straight • William MacLeod Raine
... mingled with all—always, everywhere—the brattle of cornet and trombone, the whang of piano, the wail of violin, the tinkle of the noble harp, an aristocrat in base company, weeping ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... the margin of Moonshine Land, Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs! Out where the Whing-Whang loves to stand, Writing his name with his tail in the sand, And swiping it out with his oogerish hand; Tickle me, ...
— Riley Child-Rhymes • James Whitcomb Riley
... Mahadra, India's foremost soothsayer (down in police, divorce, and night courts as Mamie Jones, May Costello, and Mabel Brown, respectively), loops back her spangled portiere. The Baby Incubator slides open its ticket-windows. Five carousals begin to whang. A row of hula-hula girls in paper necklaces appears outside of "Hawaii," gelatinously naughty and insinuating of hip. There begins a razzling of the razzle-dazzle. Shooting-galleries begin to snipe into the glittering noon, and the ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst |
