"Swat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... experience of the famous New York habit of talking in a faint careless way of large sums of money—other people's money. "You did save us a swat," he said to Susan, and beckoned another man. The upshot of a long and arduous discussion, noisy and profane, was that they got the carriage for six dollars—a price which the policeman who had been drawn ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... she stammered, with filling eyes. "Lafe wouldn't kill anything.... I've been with him almost three years and I know. Why, he wouldn't let Peg or me swat flies." ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour. By H C. THOMSON. With over 50 Illustrations reproduced from Photographs, and important Diagrams and Map. Second Edition, demy 8vo, ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... met, I wot he was fu' fain: They swakkit swords, and they twa swat, Till the blude ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... my God, that glib-tongu'd Aiken, My very heart and saul are quakin', To think how we stood groanin', shakin', And swat wi' dread, While he wi' hingin' lips and ...
— English Satires • Various
... a last swat at the waggling tail of a burrowing buck, and wheeled to overtake Irish and have a hand in reversing the grins. Big Medicine saw them start, and came bellowing up from the far side of the huddle like a bull challenging to combat from across a meadow. Big Medicine ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... but it is valuable. One moment it considers the best methods to "swat the fly"—to drive him from the vehicle in which he is an unwelcome passenger; the next moment the class is being shown the proper handling of the linen closet, the proper methods of folding and putting away clean linen and blankets, ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
... revolutionists who got possession of power in France in 1879 have so twisted to their own ends this French Constitution of 1875, that their government of the Third French Republic in 1890 really resembles the government of the Akhoond of Swat about as nearly as it resembles the government of the American Republic ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... a downright bachelor equipment," affirmed Pike, "but I've scandalized this outfit enough, or thereabout, and that venison has killed all our appetites until breakfast, so why hang around where ungrateful children swat a man's dearest hobbies?" ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... explained to the new boy, "to get through the 'swat' with as little squandering of valuable time as possible. It doesn't pay to be skewed. We must mug up our 'cons' well enough to scrape along without 'puns' and ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell
... mair he thocht, the mair he thocht o' the black man. He tried the prayer, an' the words wouldnae come to him; an' he tried, they say, to write at his book, but he could nae mak' nae mair o' that. There was whiles he thocht the black man was at his oxter, an' the swat stood upon him cauld as well-water; and there was other whiles, when he cam to himsel' like a christened bairn and ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the Yarkhun valley till it pleased the snows to melt. They could follow the course of the river to Chitral,—no Frontier outpost then, but an independent Native State; or work their way, by faith and courage, through the wild Swat country to the Punjab. The state of both routes was unknown; the question of supplies a hopeless one; and amid a chaos of uncertainties, bad weather was the one thing that might safely be counted on in October. To crown all, their line of communication ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
... chance shots; in Carajan; devil-dancing; property of the dead; Sumatran; Malabar; as to omens. Sur-Raja. Survival, instances of. Sushun, Regent of China, execution of. Su-tash, the Jadek. Suttees in S. India, of men. Svastika, sacred symbol of the Bonpos. Swans, wild, at Chagan-Nor. Swat. —— River. Swi-fu. Sword blades of India. Syghinan, see Shighnan. Sykes, Major P. Molesworth. Sylen (Ceylon). Symbolical messages, Scythian and Tartar. Syrian Christians. Syrrhaptes Pallasii, see Barguerlac. Szechenyi, ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa |
