"True-blue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and cannon-shoot—of all their malices. I am an old man, and draw fast to homeward, where the bed is ready. But for you, Bennet, y' are to remain behind here at your own peril, and if ye come to my years unhanged, the old true-blue ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... replied the captain, "I am a true-blue Protestant, and I thank God for it." (It was the first word of any religion I had ever heard from him, but I learnt afterwards he was a great church-goer while on shore.) "But, for all that," says he, "I can be sorry to see another man with his back ...
— Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson
... There was a joyous note in Kate's voice, and gratitude. "I was sure you were true-blue, and I know I'm going ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... answered, adding with a sincerity that brought a light of unutterable gladness to Grace's eyes: "But I've met lots of fellows in my business, and have learned to size them up pretty well. And if there was ever a brainy, plucky, true-blue fellow in this world, his ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
... fine, and it's true," said Frank heartily. "Yes, Bob, we've got to forget those fellows. You are a true-blue champion, but you've shown your colors, so ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster
... we behaved ourselves like true-blue Scotsmen called forth to fight the battles of our country; and if the French had come, as they did not come, they would have found that to their cost, as sure as my name is Mansie. However, it turned out as well, in the meantime, that it was a false alarm, and that the thief Buonaparte had not ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir
... relations thet she sort o' looks up to,—though she don't own it,—but she was raised Methodist an' I was raised a true-blue Presbyterian. But when we professed after Sonny come we went up together at Methodist meetin'. What we was after was righteous livin', an' we didn't keer much which ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... "No, Tom's true-blue, Huck, and he'll come back. He won't desert. He knows that would be a disgrace to a pirate, and Tom's too proud for that sort of thing. He's up to something or other. Now I ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... 1314-15. The first open occurrence of the word Whig in British History was, I believe, in the circumstances described in the text at p.621. The original Whigs were the zealous Covenanting peasants, or true-blue Presbyterians, of Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and other western Scottish counties; and the nickname was derived, it is supposed, either from the sound Whigh (meaning Gee-up) used by the peasantry of those parts in driving their horses, ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson
... sent a colored Fenian to Canada. But is he a true-blue O'SAMBO or MCCUFFEE? Or is he recognized as colored only in respect to his peculiar ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 • Various
... Henry V. and King John, haunted his memory and darkened his vision of the true proportions of things. We draw in prejudice with our mother's milk. The mother of Tennyson had not been an Agnostic or a Comtist; his father had not been a staunch true-blue anti- Englander. Thus he inherited a certain bias in favour of faith and fatherland, a bias from which he could never emancipate himself. But tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner. Had Tennyson's birth been later, we might find in him a more complete realisation ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang
... specimens, an' everybody feels happified an' thankful. Yes, after all, th'r' is a master lot of solid comfort in a raael substantial accident right in the buzzum of a family,—none o' your three-cent fizzles, but a true-blue afflictin' dispensation. 'S a heap o' pleasin' an' valooable ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various
... will quiver When she sees her favourate KINGLAKE also monarch of the river. Oh! that I could honour fitly in this unassuming song That wondrous combination of steady, long, and strong. Then comes a true-blue mariner from the ever-glorious "First," In the golden arms of Glory and the lap of Victory nurst; Though blue may be his colours, there are better oarsmen few, And Oxford when it sees him will perhaps look still ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
... the manner in which they were conducted, the character and age of the experimenter, and the results claimed, were exquisitely good stuff for ridicule. Cartoonists and reporters leaped upon the theme with the avidity of the true-blue interviewer. Paris, where to be ridiculed is to be killed in public with the most ignominious of deaths, reacted as only the French temperament can react. The wits of the salons crackled, the bourgeoisie chortled, the proletariat roared. The Elixir ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.
... a true-blue scout, Nat," declared Elmer, "and I think the troop has reason to be ...
— Pathfinder - or, The Missing Tenderfoot • Alan Douglas
... sanguine expectations. A chosen champion of the School has come forth against us. A specimen of his logical abilities now lies before us; and we pledge ourselves to show that no prebendary at an anti-Catholic meeting, no true-blue baronet after the third bottle at a Pitt Club, ever displayed such utter incapacity of comprehending or answering an argument as appears in the speculations of this Utilitarian apostle; that he does not ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 2 (of 4) - Contributions To The Edinburgh Review • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... you the conditions, and she will be your judge. I believe in Betty, and if you do not see that she is a true-blue girl you are more of a fool than I ...
— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer
... "I am a true-blue, as you may see, and a warrant-officer already," he said, with his old way of smiling at himself. "When the war begins again (as it must—please God!—before many weeks are over), I shall very soon get my commission, ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore |
