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"Pinhole" Quotes from Famous Books

... original humour. Missed a hoop! Why, man alive, you've naught to grumble at. I've boggled every hoop since I was six. I'm fifty-five; and I've run round a ring Would make this potty circus seem a pinhole. I wasn't born to sawdust. I'd the world ...

— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)

... Absurd, absurd; but she was harrowingly tired, lonely, idle, grief-burdened, and desolate, and absurdity itself was relief. He should pay, let his paying cost her double. Somehow, in some feminine, minute, pinhole way, she would deflate him, wing him, bring him down, before he should soar another round. With old Joy at her feet, in the dusk of her corner beyond Mrs. So-and-so, the parson's wife; she allowed herself a poor, ...

— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... true, now', said the lad, 'what they say, that the Deil can make himself as small as he chooses, and thrust himself in through a pinhole?' ...

— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent

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