"Hanky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... several times," said the companion to whom he spoke, "and I saw his pocket-hanky after, and, ...
— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn
... said the skipper; "but mind, no hanky-panky, no coming for drink when my back's turned; this cask'll be watched; but if you do alter your mind about the beef you can tell the cook to get it for you any time ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... routine,' he says, 'was arrogated for reasons o' state an' policy, an' any flat-foot who presumed to exhibit surprise, annoyance, or amusement, would be slightly but firmly reproached.' Then the Gunner mops up a heathenish large detail for some hanky-panky in the magazines, an' led 'em off along with our Gunnery Jack, which is to say, ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... that there's any harm in the man, until he gets foul of the drink. The tale is he gets his money out o' Government— a sort of pension. Was mixed up in the Spithead Mutiny, by one account, an' turned informer; but there's another tale he earned it by some hanky-panky over in Lisbon, when the Royal Family there packed up traps from the Brazils; and that's the story I favour, for (between you and me) I've seen Portugal money in ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q) |
