"Chit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Reuben's example, He hasn't a morsel o' wit! An yond lass o' Braans,—shoo's a sample Ov a gigglin, young impitent chit. An he'd cheek to tell me shoo wor bonny,— One like her!!—Why, shoo's just skin an booan Awd have better nor her if awd onny, But he'd ...
— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley
... the little, rough-coated Skye-terrier with the honest eyes (who had plodded for weary months), gone lame and abandoned; she saw Daisy, the chit of a child, hide Punch in the wagon. She saw the savage old worried father discover the added burden of the several pounds to the dying oxen. She saw his wrath, as he held Punch by the scruff of the neck. And she saw Daisy, between the muzzle of the long-barreled ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... indolently laid Under a poppy's spreading shade. The jealous queen started in rage; She kick'd her crown, and beat her page: "Bring me my magic wand," she cries; "Under that primrose, there it lies; I'll change the silly, saucy chit, Into a flea, a louse, a nit, A worm, a grasshopper, a rat, An owl, a monkey, hedgehog, bat. But hold, why not by fairy art Transform the wretch into— Ixion once a cloud embraced, By Jove and jealousy well placed; What sport to see proud Oberon stare, And flirt it with ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole
... was a dummy. That is to say it purported to be such an epistle as any young lady might have written to a gentleman friend. It began, "Dear Mr. Bingham," and ended, "Yours sincerely, Beatrice Granger," was filled with chit-chat, and expressed hopes that he would be able to come down to Bryngelly again later in the summer, when they would ...
— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard
... the fun of an execution, with money burning holes in their pockets, being captured, the party subsided into the "Bowl" where a bottle of wine washed away the remembrance of Sally Salisbury's grievance. But she vowed vengeance on the "squalling chit" ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
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