"Edgewise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one makes his way through miles and miles of garden walls, half-hiding coquettish villas. The surface of the roads here is formed of a peculiar variety of paving that makes them beloved of automobilists, it being of small brick placed edgewise, and very agreeable ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
... to be guided. Anyhow, you'll have to talk in front of me, because my master is afraid of being murdered; he isn't afraid of ghosts or bad smells, but the sight of a long knife turns his heart to water and sets him to praying so loud that you can't get a word in edgewise. Go on, both of ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy |
