"Beany" Quotes from Famous Books
... five, the unsophisticated gratitude of youth, less cunning in the ways of the world, declared unhesitatingly, in its own idiomatic language, "that old Hodgett was a regular brick, and gave very beany feeds." And so his fame travelled far beyond his own collegiate walls, and out-college honourables and gentlemen-commoners were content to make the acquaintance, and eat the dinners that were so freely offered. And ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
... you! I shall simply love it. I am feeling especially beany as I have just finished with the dentist—usually a hateful person—who found out, after all, that it was not necessary to take out any of my teeth. I adore him. No time for more. Heaps to ... — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 11, 1917 • Various
... Beany. He shifted elbows, and in a minute Porky did the same. "But the man we passed in the road didn't look like the murderer, did he? Kind of square built. Looked worse than the real one, ... — The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine |