"Quirk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was the torture of the happy:—in this track, I say, did my uncle Toby and Trim move for many years, every year of which, and sometimes every month, from the invention of either the one or the other of them, adding some new conceit or quirk of improvement to their operations, which always opened fresh springs of delight in ...
— A Book of English Prose - Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools • Percy Lubbock
... don't look surprised. I've thought of this possibility. My God!" she said with a bitterness that startled him. "I've thought of every possibility, every possible crook and quirk of ...
— No Clue - A Mystery Story • James Hay
... the thorough-going type of man, not overbalanced and erratic, without quirk or quibble of temperament. He was efficient, but not brilliant. His was a general all-round efficiency. He was efficient at the law; he was efficient at college; he was efficient as a sailor; he was efficient in the matter of pride, when that pride was no more than ...
— The Human Drift • Jack London
... glove in't as sure as there's a quirk in't," Gavinia kept muttering to herself. She rose to have another look at the hoddy-place in which she had concealed the glove from her husband, and as she did so she caught sight of him at the window. He bobbed ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... casually through the dossiers of the four new men who had been assigned to him. They were typical of the kind of men who were sent to him, he thought. Which meant, as usual, that they were atypical. Every man in the Diplomatic Corps who developed a twitch or a quirk was shipped to Saarkkad IV to work under Bertrand Malloy, Permanent Terran Ambassador to His Utter Munificence, the ...
— In Case of Fire • Gordon Randall Garrett
... connected. The prayers of those whose interests he cared for so earnestly will doubtless be fervently offered for his eternal rest. The funeral took place from the Church of the Immaculate Conception, on the morning of November 10th. The Rev. Father Quirk celebrated the Requiem Mass. The Rev. Father Boursaud, rector, and the Rev. Father Charlier accompanied the body to Calvary Cemetery. May he ...
— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 • Various
... about being involved in action injurious to Pelton's commercial interests; just another odd quirk of Literate ethics. ...
— Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
... quirk to her too. Work up as much sympathy as you wanted to, you couldn't do anything for her. Sadie ain't slow at that, you know. She got int'rested in her right off, and when she discovers how Lindy lives in a couple ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford
... her head. "So it ought," she said, "and so I told Mr. Quirk; but he won't do anything,—and we can't afford to paint it; we shouldn't have money left ...
— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott
... himself laying bare the man with savage glee when next they should encounter. He would whiten the big brute's face by showing he had probed him to the quick. Just let him laugh at me again, thought Gourlay, and I'll analyze each mean quirk of his dirty ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... pretty quirk, Taught him by nature, how to work In iron with much ease; Sometimes to the forge he goes, There he knocks and there he blows, And makes ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan |
