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"Whopper" Quotes from Famous Books

... too. I s'pose Paul Irving never tells whoppers and here I've been trying awful hard to be as good as him, but now I s'pose you'll never love me again. But I think you might have told me it was wrong. I'm awful sorry I've made you cry, Anne, and I'll never tell a whopper again." ...

— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... exclaimed. "It must be a whopper! What does he say? When is he coming here? Give me some of the points of it. But, by the way, Edna, before you begin, I will say that I think it is about time he should write. Since the letter in which he told about the guano-bags and sent you ...

— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton

... vulgar would call a 'whopper.' Let not the reader think she whopped her baby or her husband. On the contrary, she was kind, ...

— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed

... big storm the surf dashes up to the top o' the rock. But on this day I'm talkin' of, there was one gee-whopper of a sea. It broke off a chunk of rock weighin' every ounce o' half a ton, the way you'd bite off a piece o' candy, an' just chucked that rock at the lantern, breakin' a pane of glass, clear at the top ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... him at the cover,' replied the man. 'My lord went in on foot, and the horse went round the back way. The horse wasn't there half a minute before he was wanted; for no sooner were the hounds in at one end than out popped the fox at t'other. Sich a whopper!—biggest ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... the captain remarked. "We'll have to beat back, and then there'll be some fun. I wonder if the doctor is a good sailor. My, that was a whopper!" he exclaimed, as a larger wave than usual struck the yacht. "Guess it'll be rougher ...

— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody

... I've got some pictures here of bears that a friend of mine has just shot. Look at that whopper, fifteen hundred pounds—that's as much as a horse weighs, you know. Now, my friend shot him"—and it was a toss-up who was the more keenly interested, the real boy or the man-boy, as picture after picture came out and bear adventure crowded upon the heels ...

— A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward Bok

... Lester, "and from the size of the fin, he must be a whopper. We seldom see them so large in ...

— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport

... that hawk!" cried Lew. "Isn't he a whopper? Look at the spread of his wings. And see how he soars, without ever moving a muscle. I wonder if he can ...

— The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss

Words linked to "Whopper" : belly whopper, lie, whacker, prevarication, walloper, thing