"Toddle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Sceneries," and which visitors come not only from near but from far to gaze upon. In front of the tea-house proper are rows of summer pavilions, in one of which the party make themselves at home, while gentle little tea-house girls toddle forth to serve them the invariable preliminary tea and confections. Each man then produces from up his sleeve, or from out his girdle, paper, ink, and brush, and proceeds to compose a poem on the beauty of the spot and the feelings it calls up, which he subsequently reads ...
— The Soul of the Far East • Percival Lowell
... a friend, a toy, A live little baby boy— Conceive, if you can, in her lonely state, the Princess Loo-lee's joy! How, as fast as her feet could toddle (Her shoes were a Chinese model), She hurried him in, and almost turned his dear ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
... I could toddle, my conduct's been model, There's, oh, such a difference between me ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 • Various
... legs of this young lady remind us of Miss Kilmansegg, while their size assures us that she is not in any way related to Cinderella. On being wound up, as if she were a piece of machinery, and placed on a level surface, she proceeds to toddle off, taking very short steps like a child, holding herself very stiff and straight, with a little lifting at each step, and all this with a mighty inward whirring and buzzing of the enginery ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various
... be able to go inside and explore," said Diana. "I wish I could make myself invisible. D'you think we dare just toddle across the bridge, and perhaps peep in through a ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... I will toddle along home," said Drake, rather shame-facedly. "I—-I didn't realize how time was slipping by. Yes; I guess I'll go home. Much obliged to you for ...
— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock |
