"Shrimp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that shrimp, that withered imp, Wi' a' his noise and caperin'; And take a share with those that bear The budget ...
— George Cruikshank • William Makepeace Thackeray
... less than 2% of GDP; not self-sufficient in food production; heavily subsidized sector produces fruit, vegetables, poultry, dairy products, shrimp, and fish; fish catch 9,000 metric tons ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... shrimp!' he says. ''Twould serve you right if I 'ove to and made you swim back to 'er. Blow me if I don't ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln
... cried Mr. Damon. "Why, bless my wishbone! Tom, you don't mean to say you're going to let that little shrimp Andy Foger walk away with that ten-thousand-dollar prize without giving him a fight ...
— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton
... you darned little shrimp; get a move on you," growled the big man from within the ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... allied species resemble one another much more than the mature forms. The stripes on the young Lion, the spots on the young Blackbird, are well-known cases; and we find the same law prevalent among the lower animals, as, for instance, among Insects and Crustacea. The Lobster, Crab, Shrimp, and Barnacle are very unlike when full grown, but in their young stages go ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock
... little Notes, partly from justice-,, partly from ill- temper, just to tell the gentle reader that Edward 1. was not Oliver Cromwell, nor Queen Elizabeth the Witch of Endor. This is literally all; and with all this, I shall be but a shrimp of an author." Works, vol. ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... stoutly; "an' if it had been Jock Howieson said that, I'd black his eyes. What sud I be frightened of, ye miserable little shrimp?" ...
— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren |
