"Dusty miller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hawkins to gather wild columbine on the high cliff above the river, known as Lover's Leap. When winter came these two sometimes went to Bear Creek, skating; or together they attended parties, where the old-fashioned games "Ring-around-Rosy" and "Dusty Miller" were the ...
— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine
... corn, millions of eggs and skeins of linen and woollen yarn have been bartered at Belfield Green by the country folks, in exchange for rum, molasses, tea, coffee, salt, and codfish, enough to freight the royal navy. Time was when folks came twenty miles to Belfield post-office, and when a dusty miller and his men, at the old red mill standing on the brook at the foot of the valley, took toll from half the grists in Hillsdale County. But that was long ago, when people who lived twenty miles away from Hartford went to the city scarcely twice in a dozen ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... fisherwives, followed by the factor. He had found a place on the eastern side of the village, where, jumping a low earth wail, he got into a little back yard, and was trampling over its few stocks of kail, and its one dusty miller and double daisy, when the woman to whose cottage it belonged caught sight of him through the window, and running out fell to abusing him in no measured language. He rode at her in his rage, and she fled shrieking into ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald
... Dusty Miller sliced off a wedge of bread with the knife edge against his thumb, popped it in his mouth, and followed it with ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... along with you," said Mercy, sharply. "You tell that ugly, dusty man— Dusty Miller, that's what he is— that I'm coming out to the Red Mill, whether he wants me ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson |
