"Grig" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... observations from Dr. M'Grig On that fossil reliquium called Petrified Wig, Or Perruquolithus—a specimen rare Of those wigs made for antediluvian wear, Which, it seems, stood the Flood without turning a hair— Mr. Tomkins rose up, and requested ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... quoth Sigmund the Volsung, "hast thou kneaded the meal that was yonder?" "Yea, and what other?" he said; "though therein forsooth was a wonder: For when I would handle the meal-sack therein was something quick, As if the life of an eel-grig were set in an ashen stick: But the meal must into the oven, since we were lacking bread, And all that is kneaded together, and the ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... sunshine had entered the hospitable doorway of The Jolly Grig, a tavern not a dozen miles from the outer edge of London town. Across the white, sanded floor golden patches of light had moved with measured tread, and merry motes had danced in the golden beams, but nothing else had stirred. On the deep hearth were piled huge ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... the GAZETTE such announcements as 'Lieutenant and Captain Grig, from the Bombardier Guards, to be Captain, vice Grizzle, who retires,' I know what becomes of the Peninsular Grizzle; I follow him in spirit to the humble country town, where he takes up his quarters, and occupies himself with ...
— The Book of Snobs • William Makepeace Thackeray |
