"Plunk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... twenty-five cents a week to students and we'll make Beekstein and Gumbo disgorge half a plunk each for letting ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson
... finish his foreign education in Germany. His English was pretty good, thanks to Matey. He went away, promising to remember Old England, saying he was French first, and a Briton next. He had lots of plunk; which accounted for Matey's choice of him as a friend ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... wind, that came heavy with a smell of damp woods and of rotting fruits and of all the ferment of the over- ripe fields. Chrisfield felt it stirring the moist hair on his forehead and through the buzzing haze of the cognac heard the plunk, plunk, plunk of apples dropping that followed each gust, and the twanging of night insects, and, far in the distance, the endless rumble of guns, like tomtoms beaten ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... "and that's what troubles Strout. His friends will endorse his notes and take a mortgage on the store, for they know it's a good payin' business. They expect to get their money back with good interest, but it comes kinder hard on them to plunk down five hundred dollars ...
— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin
... fairly high ledges. Now we found the heretofore dry bed flowing a good eight inches deep. The steep slopes had become cascades; the ledges, waterfalls. When we came to them, we had to "shoot the rapids" as best we could, only to land with a PLUNK in an indeterminately deep pool at the bottom. Some of the pack horses went down, sousing again our unfortunate bedding, but by the grace of fortune not a saddle pony ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... grumble curses and ask "what the blank was that"; the rest slept on serene and undisturbed. The sergeant stood there until the last sounds of falling rubbish had ceased. "A shell," he said, and drew a deep breath. "Plunk into upstairs somewhere." ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... and could see the people begin to eat it up right before your eyes as you sat in a box and watched 'em. When you've backed your own combination of inferno on riot, it gives you a thrill to stand before the box-office and watch a line of people that stretches to the next block plunk down dollars that they have earned at their own particular combinations of life to see the combination you have made of yours. Why, tears come into my eyes when I see some little, old, dried-up seamstress pay a dollar to sit in the roost to see Gerald Height love the powder ...
— Blue-grass and Broadway • Maria Thompson Daviess
... tensely; and with a sudden motion she grabbed the switch-key and, springing to her feet, flung it far out across the road, across a little scuttled canoe that lay at the bank, and plunk into the water, before the other occupants of the car could realize ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... have been worst when they were over the side before the anchors went plunk!" The young fellow shuddered. A clean death in a fair fight he did not mind more than another, but dangling there tied to ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
... if we sell the old farm anyway, and then if this mine business don't look good, we'll plunk ...
— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead
... directly beneath the open window by which they had gathered, like the midnight serenade of a romantic lover, sounded the well-known foghorn voice of T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., as to the plunkety-plunk of a banjo ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice
... Moses, and chuckled. "Mistah Sheldrake done sell me fo' cash, plunk down; I fugitives back to him, and he done sell me agin fo' mo' cash. I gits mo' money out o' speculatin' in dis heah darky, dan Scipio and Dan'l can git ahookin' watermillions fo' ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... Ker-plunk! Missiles were flying through the air and the rah-rahs were stopping a good many of them ...
— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock |
