"Rubbishy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so much!" Chia Cheng expostulated. "I'll put up for to-day," he however felt constrained to tell Pao-y, "with your haughty manner, and your rubbishy speech, so that after you have, to begin with, given us your opinion, you may next compose a device. But tell me, are there any that will do among the mottoes suggested just now by all ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... between her silent companions, terrified at the course of events, and a little bored. She was a rubbishy little creature, and she knew it. A telegram had dragged her from Naples to the death-bed of a woman whom she had scarcely known. A word from her husband had plunged her into mourning. She desired to mourn inwardly as well, but she wished that Mrs. Wilcox, ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster
... miner in them," Arlee laughed, as they made their way over the rubbishy ground where great beams of stone and fallen statues ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... Dan. "Peg chews tobacco like a man. She'd rather have it than your rubbishy peppermints, I can tell you. I'll run down to old Mrs. Sampson's and ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... ground. Every few weeks a vessel would sail into the little port of Levuka with a valuable cargo of coco-nut oil in casks, dunnaged with ivory-nuts, the latter worth in those days L40 a ton. And both oil and ivory-nuts had been secured from the wild savages of the North-West in exchange for rubbishy hoop-iron knives, old "Tower" muskets with ball and cheap powder, common beads and other worthless articles on which there was a profit of thousands per cent. (In fact, I well remember one instance ...
— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke |
