"Whopper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fellow that has been trapped this season. You won't catch nary 'nother like him. He is a whopper!" ...
— Baby Pitcher's Trials - Little Pitcher Stories • Mrs. May
... perfectly well. She is telling an awful whopper," proclaimed this amazing girl. "I won't dress up and come to dinner because I won't. She trapped me into a woman's club this afternoon and tried to get me to make a speech without even telling me what she meant to do and ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... of cradle and rocker. We "panned out," the other day, a phrase which gave us great delight, and which illustrated a fact in New England history worth noting. We were puzzling over the word "socdollager," which Bartlett, we think, defines as "Anything very large and striking,"—Anglice, a "whopper,"—"also a peculiar fish-hook." The word first occurs in print, we believe, in Mr. Cooper's "Home as Found," applied to a patriarch among the white bass of Otsego Lake, which could never be captured. We assumed at once that there ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various |
