"Blocker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... several miles distant, I made inquiry of the two outfitting stores if our Buford herds had passed. If they had, no dealings had taken place on the credit of Don Lovell, though both merchants knew him well. Before the freight outfit arrived, some one took Abb Blocker, a trail foreman for his brother John, to task for having an odd ox in his wheel team. The animal was a raw, unbroken "7L" bull, surly and chafing under the yoke, and attracted general attention. When several friends of Blocker, noticing the brand, began joking him, he made ...
— The Outlet • Andy Adams
... lively tale of the artless habits of the blacks; others, who were at home in mining towns, described the doings in Chinese camps—those unavoidable concomitants of gold-grubbing settlements; rhymes circulated that would have staggered a back-blocker; while the governesses were without exception, young and old, kindly and unkindly, laid under such flamboyant suspicions as the poor ladies had, for certain, never heard breathed—since their own ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson
... he's far enough, and free enough, Yet these conceits, I know, delight his soul. [Aside. Follow me, Blocker, follow ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... Bentley, first lieutenant, Memphis, Tenn. Benjamin Bettis, second lieutenant, U.S. Army. Harrison W. Black, first lieutenant, Lexington, Ky. Charles J. Blackwood, first lieutenant, Trinidad, Colo. William Blaney, first lieutenant, U.S. Army. Isaiah S. Blocker, first lieutenant, Atlanta, Ga. William D. Bly, first lieutenant, Leavenworth, Kans. Henry H. Boger, second lieutenant, Aurora, Ill. Elbert L. Booker, first lieutenant, Wymer, Wash. Virgil M. Boutte, captain, Nashville, Tenn. Jas. F. Booker, ...
— History of the American Negro in the Great World War • W. Allison Sweeney
... With iron 'gainst the mobs who break to fury, To see the Duke waylay democracy. The world's great conqueror's conqueror!—Eh bien! Grips England after Waterloo, but when The people see the duke for what he is: A blocker of reform, a Tory sentry, A spotless knight of ancient privilege, They up and stone him, by the very deed Stone him for wronging the democracy The Emperor erected with the sword. The world's great conqueror's conqueror—Oh, I sicken! Odes are like head-stones, standing while the graves Are guarded ...
— Toward the Gulf • Edgar Lee Masters |
