"String out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... County, adjoining Floyd, where Walter Scott Harkins had an eye for timber, his young friend was being twitted for a different reason. "John Caldwell Calhoun Mayo," they'd string out his long name, "when you're cooped up in the poorhouse or the lunatic asylum, you can't say we didn't warn you to quit digging around trying to find ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... a faster walker than the others and slowly he forged ahead. Little by little the safari began to string out along the road until wide spaces grew between the ox-wagons, with the porters straggling after them a mile behind. A change had come over the valley since we had seen it last. The land was whiter beneath the blazing sunshine and the dust ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... party of five; and of all the others, Penelope alone suspected how hard he was hit. And when all was said; when the new modus vivendi had been fairly established and the hour grew late, Kent went voluntarily with Ormsby to the smoking-compartment, "to play the string out decently," as he ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... "You might string out a few flags," Gissing said. He had been noticing the bright signal buntings in the rack, and thought it a ...
— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley
... stan's all quiet lak an' solemn, Not a blessed soul in pa'lor, po'ch, er lawn; Not a guest, ner not a ca'iage lef' to haul 'em, Fu' de ones dat tu'ned de latch-string out air gone. ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar |
