"Bagful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sundown, then," the old rascal said. "We'll meet over by the brook. Don't tell your mother. It will be a pleasant surprise for her, when you bring home a fine bagful of corn." ...
— The Tale of Frisky Squirrel • Arthur Scott Bailey
... the skin was eaten off, and the nails themselves were warped and yellowed. Often the blood followed a single accidental slop of the "juice" which settled at the bottom of the "salts." I once heard a man who used to make salts say that he spoiled a horse by carrying a bagful of the nearly dry extract thrown across the saddle. Some of the juice trickled out, and going under the saddle, not only took the hair off, but made terrible sores, which it was found well-nigh impossible to heal. The liquid corroded our ...
— The Youth's Companion - Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 • Various
... was, and dreaming too, like yourself, I make no doubt. I had just bagged my fifteenth elephant and my tenth lion when your laugh awoke me. And the best of it is that I was carrying the whole bagful on my back at once, and did not feel much oppressed by ...
— The Gorilla Hunters • R.M. Ballantyne
... whole bagful of bananas and now Effie says I'm going to be sick and thr'up. So I'm ...
— A Little Question in Ladies' Rights • Parker Fillmore
... amount of physical exertion and violence of action. It may therefore be well believed that in the case of which we write, a long time elapsed before Baldwin got the length of putting on his helmet. At last it was screwed on. Then a hammer and a bagful of wooden pins ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
... they would,' says I, a-imitatin' of him. 'They always like a bone or two to clean their teeth on about tea time, which you 'as a bagful.' ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker
... eyes and thought: "Evidently, this is the wrong tiger; but it is an original animal." Mellish's hair was standing on end with excitement, and he stammered. He began groping in his coat-tails and, before the Viceroy knew what was about to happen, he had tipped a bagful of his powder ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... boy, gazing after her, wholly entranced with her bright beauty and her kindness. "Say, I'll bring something, too,—white-oak acorns, if you like 'em; I've got a big bagful up attic!" ...
— The Story Of Waitstill Baxter • By Kate Douglas Wiggin
... use of these boxes are many. First, you must provide yourself with a large bagful or pocketful of these boxes on starting out, as one moth only goes in each box, leaving one pocket empty on the reverse side of your coat to receive the boxes when filled, in order not to mix the empty ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
... implicit faith acting; that is, the believer being persuaded that he is guilty of more sins than he hath got a clear sight of, as he would bewail his condition before God because of these, and sorrow for them after a godly manner, so he would take them together in a heap, or as a closed bagful, and by faith nail them to the cross of Christ, as if they were all distinctly seen and known. "Who can understand his errors," said David, Psalm xix. 12: yet says he moreover, "cleanse thou me from ...
— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray) |
