"Ditto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Contour in stem stitch; vein ditto, edged with two rows of short-and-long stitches ...
— Jacobean Embroidery - Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor • Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands
... black, eyes ditto, nose aquiline, mouth large, lips compressed, forehead high, face oval, ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... that by and by. And in the meantime, you must remember that in such matters we have small choice. We are born with superior or inferior faculties, and must make use of them, such as they are, to become inferior cooks or countesses or superior ditto, as the case may be. But there are always plenty of one's own kind, whichever it is, to consort with. Birds of a feather, you know. You need not ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... talks nobly, Tiernay," said he, as he gave me his arm to assist me; "but you'll stare when I tell you that 'wanting for nothing' means, having four ounces of black bread, and ditto of blue cheese per diem; and as to a horse, if I possessed such an animal, I'd have given a dinner-party yesterday and eaten him. You look surprised, but when you see a little more of us here, you'll begin to think that prison rations in the fleet yonder were luxuries ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various
... verse of that day was not up-hill work. There was a beaten track on a dead level, and you followed it. You told the tender creature, with a world of circumlocution, that, "without joking now," she was a leper, ditto a tigress, item marble. You next feigned a lucid interval, and to be on the point of detesting your monster, but in twenty more verses love became, as usual, stronger than reason, and you wound ...
— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade
|
