"Blighter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disagreeable things said to you, and let them rankle, you will probably find yourself without a chum in the world. Though the fashion may be for plain speaking, it is often a matter of mood, and the mate who genuinely believes you a "blighter" one day, will claim you as a "mascot" with equal persuasion on the next. It is all part of the wholesome rough-and-tumble of your education, and proves of as much use in training you and rounding your projecting corners as the lessons you learn in your form. The girls thought ...
— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... "The blighter goes up," he explained, as he conducted the party into the arena, "and then he stands on his head and goes round in circles. I've ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
... wrong. I tried to enlist the blighter's sympathy. Showed him round camp, the view, the bathing—everything. When Simmonds came up from the river with a string of roach Chaucer admitted it was a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various
... Reardon murmured sotto voce. "I'll have to do it. Well, thin, Riggins, whin I come out on the shtarboard ind av the bridge an' whistle 'God Save the King'—troth, I'll gamble that's one blighter ye've hearrd tell av—do ye run up into the pilot-house an' take the wheel. I'll not whistle until we have the deck to ourselves, wit'out fear av intherruption, an' ye must come quick an' take the wheel, else the vessel'll fall ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... hadn't been properly latched; his friend had been fooling with the lock a few minutes before. No, there'd been no words—not to say quarrel; they'd talked a bit—nothing more. Oh, yes, of course he'd get out and wait over, and do his bit to help 'em find his chum—poor, silly blighter! ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming |
