"Bloke" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... different sort of salute from that to which a Commander-in-Chief landing on duty is entitled by regulation. Quite a shower of shell fell all about us, the Turks having spotted there was some sort of "bloke" on the Rattlesnake. We went round a bit of the line, and found all well, the men in great heart and, amidst a constant crackle of musketry, looking as if they liked it. Birdie himself is still a little shaken by his wound of yesterday. He had a close ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... I gets a tanner. But, bless you, I ain't a brigade bloke. I say, though, where's t'other flat; ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... Trouble—I'm a busy bloke— I am the test of Courage—and of Class— I bind the coward to a bitter yoke, I drive the craven from the crowning pass; Weaklings I crush before they come to fame; But as the red star guides across the night, I train the stalwart for a better ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris
... what kind of a bloke this touted superman is, Stanton thought. Well, I can't say I ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... One, his face is ashen and his knees knock as he runs (A curious phenomenon quite rare in Number Ones); But on he rushed until he saw the tall brass-hatted Bloke, And, nervously saluting, incoherently he spoke:— "Boy Simpkins (Second Class, too!), I'm afraid that you must know, Sir, Had the nerve to mutter 'Blast you!' to a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 1, 1919 • Various
... reported to Grant later. "There's another 'tec about, but 'e ain't the chap I met last night. They say this other bloke is rollin' in money, an' buyin' hosses right ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... did as he was told, but kept foaming out rage at the bloke that had refused him his penny, and knocked down his friend. It did not occur to him that he was himself the cause of the outrage, and that his friend had suffered for him. Clare's head ached a good deal, but he ...
— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald
... come along, my dear friend." I then left him for a while. After the hour's interval I returned. The next thing I saw from the back of the room was my burly friend in the front row of a number of irreverent youngsters of juvenile age, some of whom close by me were saying, "Who's the stout old bloke; ...
— John Forster • Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
... happen to come off at two o'clock of a foggy winter morning—my word, it don't do to be caught bending then! But lucky for me I know most of 'em. And they know me. And even if they're away for three months on end, next time they're back at West India they bring some little 'love gift' for the bloke at the gate—that's me. Often I've had to patch 'em up at odd times, after they've had a thick night with the boys and have to join their boats. Sometimes one of 'em tumbles into the dock half an hour before she sails, with a smashed lip and that kind of air about ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke
... ever extricate themselves. Under the guiding hand and voice of Capt. Davenport, however, our Transport eventually got clear. During this operation "Davvy" evidently made a great impression on one soldier (a Regular), by his forcible language, as the latter was heard to remark "There's a bloke what knows 'is job." Confusion was great in Bac-St. Maur too, for when we got there, the billets which we had been allotted were still occupied by Canadians. Eventually, we all got shelter of a kind, in probably the dirtiest and poorest billets we ever had either in France or Belgium. ...
— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman
... bloke swaggered all over me, an' I seen right off thet he didn't have sense enough to be turned. Then I got cold. I always used to.... He says, 'Are you goin' ...
— The U.P. Trail • Zane Grey
... for once in a way. "That bloke? Why, he looked a honest sort of chap, he did, though ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
... fine bloke," he said as he lay there; "you wait till I get you outside. I'll fix you up, and don't ...
— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby |
