"Drumstick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... close upon his heels, came Steve, bearing his jolly big club, with which he felt able to flay even a wildcat, and he had quite a notion, too, along that same line. Toby brought up the rear, not because of any undue timidity on his part, but because somebody had to "take the drumstick," as his father was wont to say when they had turkey, and in this case all of them could not be either first or second; so Toby ...
— Jack Winters' Campmates • Mark Overton
... the presumption it breeds will ruinate us. Jefferson was an infidel, and avowed it, and gloried in it, and called it the enlightenment of the age. Cambridge College is Unitarian, 'cause it looks wise to doubt, and every drumstick of a boy ridicules the belief of his forefathers. If our country is to be darkened by infidelity, our Government defied by every State, and every State ruled by mobs—then, Sam, the blood we shed in our revolution ...
— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... Miss Sampson. Let me help you to a scrap of cold chicken. What? Drumstick! Miss Faithie—here is a woman who makes it a principle to go through the world, choosing drumsticks! She's a study; and I set you to finding ...
— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... had had to wiggle himself out of the small window, and had crushed the pansies flat. Detective Gubb felt carefully among the crushed pansies, and his hand found something hard and round. It was the drumstick bone of a chicken's leg. Detective Gubb threw it away. Even an un-burglar would not have chosen a chicken's leg bone as a weapon. Evidently Billy Getz had not left any clue ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... well!" With a deep sigh, the Scarecrow took the Grand Chew Chew's arm and, holding up his royal kimono (which was rather long) with the other hand, walked unsteadily down the great salon. They were about to pass into the garden when a little fat Silverman slid around the door, a huge silver drumstick upraised in his right hand and a great drum hung ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... him, and that he would make them comfortable and happy. They nodded their heads vigorously as he spoke, but pointed to their venerable chief, who sat at the entrance of his cave eating of a turkey's drumstick. Father Carillo went over to the old man and saluted him respectfully. The chief nodded, waved his hand at a large flat stone, and continued his repast, his strong white teeth crunching bone as well ...
— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton
... flurried rather, As we kept up the tune outside the chancel, While they were swearing things none can cancel Inside the walls to our drumstick's whack. ...
— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy
... Kate, hould on, girl!" he shouted. "Ma-chree! Machree! The darling's dancing like a drumstick!" ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine |
