"Calibre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the investigator. "It's a Smith and Wesson; it's of a small calibre, commonly called ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre
... men of the Doctor's calibre, found himself wanting in his usual equanimity. His familiar role did not serve, he could see that, and for once his resources ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... needs play games suited to the calibre of the little one, and Ring around a Rosy and London Bridge proved ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells
... is an author of a very different calibre, the venerable Beda; concerning whom we must remember that he stands in contrast to Gildas from being Anglo-Saxon rather than British. Now, his history is Ecclesiastical and not Civil; so that ethnological questions make no part of his inquiries, ...
— The Ethnology of the British Islands • Robert Gordon Latham
... highly-polished, brown agates. She was not the least shy or averse to attracting attention. She laughed much, and practised, as prelude to her laughter, an impudently, coquettish, little stare. And finally, as he sat on her right at dinner, her rattling talk and lightness of calibre generally struck John Knott as rather cynically inadequate to the demands made by her present position. Not that he underrated her good nature or was insensible to her personal attractions. But the doctor was in search of an able coadjutor just then, ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
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