"Day-old" Quotes from Famous Books
... Fourth of July, now and then a pop would be heard. At each report of a cap-pistol a block away, Carl would dash out and vehemently protest to a group of scornful youngsters that they would wake our son. As if a one-day-old baby would seriously consider waking if a giant fire-cracker went off ... — An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... you?" said a Sergeant acquaintance in the D.A.C. "I couldn't, Corp'l. Why, I don't even know how I'm goin' to take the foal yonder"—he glared reproachfully at a placid Clydesdale mare and her tottering one-day-old; "and 'ow I'm goin' ... — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, August 1, 1917. • Various |