"Watch chain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... something Giant Despair couldn't do, but he showed the big seals on his watch chain, and dropped some bright new five-cent pieces into the ...
— The Pleasant Street Partnership - A Neighborhood Story • Mary F. Leonard
... I'll knock you on the bead!" cried the tramp, as, letting go of the watch chain, he clapped a dirty hand ...
— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield
... my watch chain!' as Mr. Damon would say, I think I've got just what I want. I'm going to try a wet plate now, and I think it will work. Come on now. Speed up! I'm in a great big hurry to get home and ...
— Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone • Victor Appleton
... you was a preacher the minute I laid eyes on you. You don't wear your collar buttoned behind, nor a black thingumbob over your shirt front, nor Presbyterian whiskers, nor a little gold cross on a black string watch chain; them's the usual marks, I know, and you hain't got any of 'em. But I knew you just the same. You can't fool J.P. Wamsley. You see, there's a peculiar air about a man that's accustomed to handle any particular line of goods. ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various
... "Bless my watch chain!" exclaimed the other voice. "You don't say so! Why I know Mr. Fenwick very well—he and I used to go to school together, but bless my multiplication tables—I never thought he'd amount to anything! And so he's built an airship; and Tom is going to help him with it? Why, bless ...
— Tom Swift and his Wireless Message • Victor Appleton
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