"Good-for-naught" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you take me for?" demanded Pickering, starting to his feet with flashing eyes, and throwing open his top-coat as if the weight oppressed him. "I've been a lazy dog all my life, and a good-for-naught; but I hope I've ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... said the wood-cutter. "Thou art a lazy good-for-naught to talk so. Come, carry my bundle of sticks and I will give thee food ...
— Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends • Gertrude Landa
... do not. Don't suppose I would waste time on a good-for-naught. Paz can tell you what attracted ...
— Prince Lazybones and Other Stories • Mrs. W. J. Hays
... a fool," said the wood-cutter. "Thou art a lazy good-for-naught to talk so. Come, carry my bundle of sticks and I will give thee food and ...
— Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends • Gertrude Landa
... his speech was wise, But, when a glance they caught Of his slim grace and woman's eyes, 35 They laughed, and called him good-for-naught. ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell |
