"Hefty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a lot of burros—and gettin' nowhere. But Jim Waring's out after that bunch that got Pat. If I wasn't so hefty, I'd 'a' gone with him. I tell you the man that got Pat ain't goin' to live long ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... uninjured elbow, and then blurted out, 'It is just as well for the —— Huns that I got wounded.' These were not the exact words he used. There were many accompanying adjectives, without which the vocabulary of the Australian would be very limited indeed. This big-hearted, whole-souled, hefty 'Westralian' seemed to think that the issue to that particular 'push' depended absolutely ...
— Over the Top With the Third Australian Division • G. P. Cuttriss
... I'll lend you a couple of my men as well. Williams and Johnston. Hefty chaps in a scrimmage, and both equal to engines of any kind. But we must be smart. This must be done before the Turks get any ...
— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges
... of stature and weight, and of almost cat-like elasticity of frame and movement, he saw fit to cultivate a deliberation and dignity of manner that in his cadet days had started the sobriquet of "Heavy," later altered to "Hefty"; and Hefty Harris he was to the very hour this story opens—a junior first lieutenant with four years' record of stirring service in the far West, in days when the telegraph had not yet strung the Arizona deserts, and the railway was undreamed of. He had only ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... to be; worked up on the flyin' rings until she got too hefty," his companion explained. "Now she takes care of the wardrobes and sort of looks out that the Human Doll don't get lost in the shuffle; the midget, you know. Now peel, and I'll give you a rub-down ...
— Anything Once • Douglas Grant
... a hefty chap to keep Sourdough out, if he meant coming in," said O'Malley. "But I guess we'll do our best—eh, boys? I reckon our Jan's a better mascot than ...
— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson
... contained in the correspondence of Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, who was our Ambassador in Paris on and off between 1824 and 1841, a correspondence published in 1916, in two hefty volumes. The period covered is from 1781 to 1821, and the documents are mainly the letters to him of Lady Bessborough, which reveal a relation between the pair so curious that, to me, it is extraordinary that nobody should have called attention to them before. I can only account ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett
... his spectacles to look at the youth through them. "You think he can do it all right? He ain't very hefty." ...
— Uncle William - The Man Who Was Shif'less • Jennette Lee
... a narrow staircase, with steep and well-worn stairs, and told Linda that was the way to the back chamber over the kitchen, and when she got up there she would see the garret stairs; and she guessed Linda could find the way up alone. She was pretty hefty herself, and she didn't travel up and down stairs any more than ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 • Various |
