"Dirt cheap" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had only stuck to it—but Dick never could. He got in with some mine promoters, and after that nothing would answer but that he must rush right back to Goldfield and look over some properties that were for sale dirt cheap. As though Dick would have been any wiser after he'd seen 'em! But his biggest piece of folly was in taking the ...
— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford
... "Oh, it is dirt cheap; but never mind, for one day, you shall have it. Deposit in gold money a hundred francs, and twenty francs for the hire." The old man folded ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne
... position in which they can do the work for which they are specially fitted.... I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt or Davy or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt cheap ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell
... I have forgotten the rashers. I will go and get them, at once. We sha'n't have to depend upon them as our main staple, in future; for fruit is dirt cheap, out there, and one does not want much meat. We shall be able to live like princes, on two pounds ten a week; and besides, this appointment may lead to something better, and we may consider that there is ...
— With Kitchener in the Soudan - A Story of Atbara and Omdurman • G. A. Henty
... to be rayther a pressing matter of yours." "Yes," I says, "it IS rayther a pressing matter, and you'll find it a bargain - dirt cheap." "I ain't in partickler want of a bargain just now," he says, "but where is it?" "Why," I says, "the turn-out's just outside. Come and look at it." He hasn't any suspicions, and away we go. And the first thing that happens is, that the horse runs away with my friend ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens
... easy to tackle, and Mrs. Biggs was there with her gab, if she is my niece, and said I got it dirt cheap." ...
— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes
... warnt Cruel enuff—wherever it befalls, Without shooting poor sogers, with sich scalding hot balls,— But thats not so Bad as a Sett of Bare Faced Scrubbs As joins their Sopes together, and sits up Steem rubbing Clubs, For washing Dirt Cheap,—and eating other Peple's grubs! Which is all verry Fine for you and your Patent Tea, But I wonders How Poor Wommen is to get Their Beau-He! They must drink Hunt wash (the only wash God nose there will be!) And their Little drop of Somethings as they takes for their Goods, When you and your ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... needful!! That is the way to work it, and to win. You must be prepared to pay at least L150 (or to get someone to pay it for you) for sundries. Even thus your expenditure will not reach L1000; dirt cheap for a safe borough. Formerly a borough contest used to mean L3,000, and a county anything up ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 30, 1891 • Various
... eliminated. "Ours are so good," Florence said, "that the last time we rented the house, we put them in the lease. I wouldn't do that with you, of course, but I know they'll be just what you want." And six thousand dollars a year was simply dirt cheap. ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster |
