"Jawing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pretty soft and mellow, what from the unusualness of the meeting, and we asked the old codger if we could all come over to his camp and shake hands with the gal—he'd drawed back from us about a mile, he was that skeered to be sociable. So after considerable haggling and jawing, he said we could, and here we come, just about sundown, all of us looking sheepish enough to be carved for mutton, but everlasting determined to take that ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... be Mud when I git out of this, you old scarecrow! Don't you stand there jawing over me. I don't like it," added the prisoner, so savagely that the ...
— The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers • Frank Gee Patchin
... leader of the Maximalists, the Anarchist wing of the peasants: "We must do honour to a political party which puts such an act into effect the first day, without jawing about it!" ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... some of you that I have," returned Malone complacently. "But don't stand jawing all night. Go on, ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... to keep that business dark," he reminded her. "Aunt Harriet must never find out. She's been jawing me no end about responsibility, and looking after the kids and supporting the mater and all that. Rubbed it in hard, I can tell you! Great Juggins! Do I look like ...
— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil
... of the Afric-American race, we would gladly wean them, at the cost of some additional ill-will, from the sterile path of political agitation. They can help win their rights if they will, but not by jawing for them. One negro on a farm which he has cleared or bought patiently hewing out a modest, toilsome independence, is worth more to the cause of equal suffrage than three in an Ethiopian (or any other) ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various
... big fellow, with hair frizzled out like an old buffalo just before shedding time; and the people jawing worse than a cavayard of paroquets, stopped, ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... your infernal abuse again, I'll blow your brains out! I haven't got your talent for scolding. If you want to settle accounts with me, come along like a man, and don't stand here jawing like a fishwife." ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... like to give her father six months. What's the use of jawing? We've been aiding and abetting a crime. We might have prevented this slaughter of the innocents. What will that skin be like in one year ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... of the original pages are available through the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress. For "Lawing and Jawing" see http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hurstonbib:@field(TITLE@od1(LawingandJawing)) For "Forty Yards" see http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hurstonbib:@field(TITLE@od1(FortyYards)) ...
— Three Plays - Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing • Zora Neale Hurston
... the First room, trying to find a batting-glove I'd mislaid. There was a copy of the Wrykynian lying on the mantelpiece, and I picked it up and started reading it. So there wasn't any noise to show anybody outside that there was some one in the room. And then I heard Burgess and Spence jawing on the steps. They thought the place was empty, of course. I couldn't help hearing what they said. The pav.'s like a sounding-board. I heard every word. Spence said, 'Well, it's about as difficult a problem as any captain of cricket at Wrykyn has ever had to tackle.' ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse
... sharply with his pencil. "They'll read that and they'll read the other, and I'll bet dollars to doughnuts nine men out of ten will begin jawing and spouting and arguing that if there were no National Forests, there would be no Range Wars. If they draw a false impression, that's the public's look out. If we weren't dealing with ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... Noel's fault," H.O. said; "what did he want to go jawing about Rome for?—and a clown's as good as a beastly poet, anyhow! You remember that day we made toffee? Well, I thought of ...
— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit
... Squire, "perhaps you are right and perhaps you ain't. Right or wrong, you always talk like Solomon in all his glory. Anyway, be off with that note and let me have the answer as soon as you get back. Mind you don't go loafing and jawing about down in Boisingham, ...
— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard
... and after! When I'm going to sleep I hear him jawing away again. But the biggest bore of all is that we can't argue about anything now without his growing 'pi.' I've always been religious. Yes, chaff as much as you like; that won't prevent me believing what I do believe! Only he's too much of a nuisance: he blubbers; he talks ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... am. Here I've been ever since six o'clock. Didn't want to interrupt the pleasant conversation. If you like to put in half of your watch below jawing with a dear friend, that's not ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... folded finely up in her talk—all quite ostensibly about her impressions and her intentions. She tried to put Densher again on his American doings, but he wouldn't have that to-day. As he thought of the way in which, the other afternoon, before Kate, he had sat complacently "jawing," he accused himself of excess, of having overdone it, having made—at least apparently—more of a "set" at their entertainer than he was at all events then intending. He turned the tables, drawing her out about London, about her vision of life there, and ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James
... about to leave the room; muttering, as he passed behind the large Indian screen at the door, something about 'jawing ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... exactly know what you and the Padre are jawing about at such a rate, Professor," he struck in; "but as well as I can catch on, it's about things which happened three or four hundred years ago. I don't want to interrupt you, of course; but I do want the Padre—he knows something about ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... to take advantage of it by sneaking out of the door with another pail. He was intercepted, and the argument took on a three-cornered aspect. Another endless, futile jawing-match resulted. Each was restrained from striking a blow by the knowledge that the other two would ...
— The Huntress • Hulbert Footner
... 'It's no good jawing,' said Nidderdale. 'let's get the money.' Then Montague offered to undertake the debt himself, saying that there were money transactions between him and his partner. But this could not be allowed. He had only lately come ...
— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope
... the cook's hysterics had become quieter, and the housemaid had time to say what she thought of them, 'don't you begin jawing us. We aren't going to stand it. We know too much. You'll please make an extra special treacle roley for dinner, and we'll have ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... it than you do," avowed the captain, "except that it's a piece of business very likely to bring all our heads to the block unless we show a clean pair of heels for it. So now avast jawing, and obey orders!" ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
... Buck called out, pulling at the sleeve of his younger brother; "we've got no more time to waste here, jawing. Right now I'm some twisted in my bearings, and we might have a tough time gettin' ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... jawing and go back to your quarters,' says he, 'or I'll have you escorted to the guard-house. Now, scat, both of you! Before you go, which one of you has got ...
— Options • O. Henry
... saw the stately tower Shining sae clear and bright, Whilk stood aboon the jawing[B] wave, Built on a ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... suppose I did all the jawing—I usually do. I think I was telling her about the strike, and ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence
... cross as he at last perceived the missing lad conversing with the proprietor of a pie-stall, having evidently been doing a little jawing with him. ...
— The Champdoce Mystery • Emile Gaboriau
... what you're jawing about. The lad himself has no wish to leave. Besides, what do we want with him at home? We can manage ...
— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al
... a ghost," said a third voice, impatiently; "very likely while you're all jawing about it down 'ere it's a-burglin' ...
— A Master Of Craft • W. W. Jacobs
... much freedom, its wings being clipt; and nothing pleased the little rebel so much as to claw his way up to his master's shoulder, sit there and watch the progress of the razor, with intermittent "jawing" at his own reflection in the ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... when I walked up its lawn, was noisy with the hammering and jawing of its decoration committee. Out in the glass belvedere, like superior goods on display, taking it easy while every one else worked, I saw a group of young matrons of the smart set, Ina Vandeman among them, drinking tea. The open play she was making at Worth troubled me a little. He ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... went away, and we heard them jawing in their room. Just as Oswald was falling asleep the door opened, and a figure in white came in and bent above his almost sleeping form. ...
— Oswald Bastable and Others • Edith Nesbit |
