"Gizzard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going, we want all the information we can get," declared the odd man. "Bless my gizzard, Tom, but this may ...
— Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground • Victor Appleton
... of some wild fruit, such as the climbing bitter-sweet, are so soft that it seems impossible they should pass through the gizzard of a bird and not ...
— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs
... "you'd find it a pretty tough and matter-of-fact idea, if you had it stuck through your gizzard, ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... in the eyes Will quickly fall upon the tongue, And thence, as famed John Bunyan sung, From out the pen will presently On paper dribble daintily. Suppose I call'd you goose, it is hard One word should stick thus in your gizzard. You're my goose, and no other man's; And you know, all my geese are swans: Only one scurvy thing I find, Swans sing when dying, geese when blind. But now I smoke where lies the slander,— I call'd you goose instead of gander; For that, dear Tom, ne'er fret and vex, I'm sure you cackle like ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift
... the Italian's sober dress; in his long hair, and the chapeau bras, over which he bowed so gracefully, and then pressed it, as if to his heart, before tucking it under his arm, after the fashion in which the gizzard reposes under the wing of a roasted pullet,—yet it was impossible that even Frank could deny to Riccabocca that praise which is due to the air and manner of an unmistakable gentleman. And certainly as, after dinner, ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... see the pantomime, which I chose to assume was enacted for my further exasperation. I was apparently as indifferent to Uncle Ike's shameless partiality in loading my plate with choice tidbits, such as a gizzard, a merry-thought, or a cheese-cake, while Mary 'Liza had to ask twice for what she wanted. What was not tasteless was bitter to my palate. I wondered, dully, why the sight of the doll-baby and the fuss her owner ...
— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland
... at the same time excellent, soup, is made from the legs, neck, heart, wings, and gizzard of all kinds of poultry. These odds and ends are ...
— Fifty Soups • Thomas J. Murrey
... to bring stones so far, and enough of them," said John. "You must like to lift better than I do, and strain your gizzard in ...
— From Boyhood to Manhood • William M. Thayer
... now, that's impudint, ye varlet. As if Teddy McFadden would let go hook and line, bob and sinker, whin he had got hold of a sturgeon. Be aisy now; I'll squaze the gizzard and liver iv ye togither, if ye ...
— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis
... you wouldn't be running a motor-boat. Bless my very existence, but I'm in trouble! My machine has stopped on a lonely road and I can't seem to get it started. I happened to hear your boat and I came here to hail you. Bless my coat-pockets but I am in trouble! Can you help me? Bless my soul and gizzard!" ...
— Tom Swift and his Motor-boat - or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa • Victor Appleton
... but it won't hold no frills in the way of Honesty and such. Down with you, and close the bargain with that chap and tip him the wink that, though we're mugs enough to give him six thousand dollars for the loan of his old shark-boat, we're men enough to put a pistol bullet in his gizzard if he tries any games with ...
— Great Sea Stories • Various
... level, steady gaze, his eyes gleaming coldly. "If you think I'm bluffing now, chirp for some one of your pluguglies to bust into this game. I'd sort of like to let off my campaign guns into your dirty gizzard!" ...
— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer
... of Birds," which some have identified with the classical Island of Isis,[EN139] shows a triune profile, what the Brazilians call a Moela or "gizzard." Of its three peaks the lowest is the eastern; and the central is the highest, reaching seven hundred, not a thousand, feet. Viewed from within the Gulf, it is a slope of sand which has been blown in sheets up the backing hills. The ground plan, as seen from a balloon, would represent a round ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... brief for SMILLIE Or for the miners' claims; I disapprove most highly Of many of their aims; But when I see the Wizard Enthroned in ASQUITH'S stead, It cuts me to the gizzard And dyes ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 22, 1920 • Various |
