"Slinger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Faun mean,' he said, half aloud to himself, 'by telling me the Painted People have changed?' He caught sight of Una's yellow head. 'Have you seen a painted lead-slinger?' he called. ...
— Puck of Pook's Hill • Rudyard Kipling
... at the Naval Academy are always true," retorted Paulson severely. "Proceed, sir, to the comments which the ink-slinger of the 'Bazoo' has made concerning you. Mister, ...
— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... leaned out far over the water. The sleeves of his thin cotton shirt, cut off close to the shoulder, bared his brown arm of full rounded form and with a satiny skin like a woman's. He swung it rigidly with the rotary and menacing action of a slinger: the 14-lb. weight hurtled circling in the air, then suddenly flew ahead as far as the curve of the bow. The wet thin line swished like scratched silk running through the dark fingers of the man, and the plunge of the lead close ...
— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad
... cried Billee Dobb. "Come on," he ordered. "Every man make a slinger. It's like the old Bible story of David and Goliath. But how'd you happen to have those rubber ...
— The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek - or Fighting the Sheep Herders • Willard F. Baker
... time when Sullivan was unfitted to fight any one. Before that, in succession, from youth up, he had been a peasant farmer's son in Ireland, a scullion in a ship's kitchen earning his way to America, a "beef slinger" for a packing company, a cooks' assistant and waiter in a Bowery restaurant, a bouncer in a saloon, a rubber down at prize fights, a policeman, a private in the army during the Civil War, a ticket-taker, exhibition wrestler, "short-change man" with a minstrel company, later ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-colored polygons). Also 'rectangle slinger'. ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... a roar of laughter. A moment before, and Tom had been the pet of the market, the energetic leader, the champion potato-slinger. Now he was a thing of derision. His friends took up the question. Keen anxiety was expressed on all sides as to the fate of father's trousers. He was requested to be a ...
— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse
... he's not a mere slinger of partisan ink, But a thinker who gives us profoundly to think; And his arguments cannot be lightly dismissed With cries of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various |
