"Fizzle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stood above him by one of the trucks of fuel on the rail. The gesticulating figure was bright and white in the moonlight, and shouting, "Fizzle, you fool! Fizzle, you hunter of women! You ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... chance to observe life. Make him a buffer between Mrs. Killigrew and the whining cheats. And above all, no young man who has social entree to your house. That kind of a private secretary is always a fizzle." ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath
... a hundred different risks, not least of which was the chance of falling in with a party of Howrah's men. In fact, if they should encounter anybody before bringing up at Jaimihr's palace it was likely that the whole plan would fizzle into nothing. ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... notion to try it!" Mr. Ranny's eyes were shining. "Do you believe I could pull it off, Quin? I've made such a darned fizzle of things in the past that I'm almost afraid to kick over ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs. See FIZZLE. ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al. |
