"Jawing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here always have been worked by gangs of Yellow Gnomes, therefore they must be for all time. Now that's just the kind of fine old crusted pig-headed Conservativism that's kept this the stick-in-the-mud Country it is! Look at the sort of business you've been wasting our time in jawing about to-day—why, in the country We came from, a Rural District Council would have settled it all in five minutes if they thought it worth bothering about at all. Street lanterns and watchmen's horns and old women's sweet-stalls indeed! If you could only walk through—I won't say one of our ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... you're still a life member. The change of name isn't a constitutional alteration. Selby-Harrison made sure of that before we did it, so it doesn't break up the continuity, which is most important for us all. Lord Thormanby and the Archdeacon were jawing away like anything while we were searching about for the hanker, and took no notice of us, although the Archdeacon is frightfully polite now as a rule, quite different from what he used to be. They said the election was a soft thing for you unless somebody went and put up a third ...
— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham
... no more about it than you do," avowed the captain, "except that it's a piece of business very likely to bring all our heads to the block unless we show a clean pair of heels for it. So now avast jawing, and ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
... feeble, was heard within the little chamber at this period of the conversation, demanding angrily when "that gal would have done jawing;" upon which Phoebe put her finger to her lips, and led Mr. ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... "None. Nor jawing either. He's all jaw," the fourth man, who was overhauling the tucker-bag, exclaimed, with ...
— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott
... blinked as if he had struck her, but she only tossed her head and stiffened her under lip, and said: "Jawing again, are ye? I'd chuck it for once, Charlie, if it was only ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... might keep jawing till crack o' doom, and not give you any idea of it without you heard it," answered Herb Heal, the dare-all moose-hunter. "The noise begins sort o' gently, like the lowing of a tame cow. It seems, if you're listening to it, to come rolling—rolling—along ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook
... impressions and her intentions. She tried to put Densher again on his American doings, but he wouldn't have that to-day. As he thought of the way in which, the other afternoon, before Kate, he had sat complacently "jawing," he accused himself of excess, of having overdone it, having made—at least apparently—more of a "set" at their entertainer than he was at all events then intending. He turned the tables, drawing her out about ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James
... Maximalists, the Anarchist wing of the peasants: "We must do honour to a political party which puts such an act into effect the first day, without jawing about it!" ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... simplest of French doggerel and means, freely translated, that while the fat-headed and the weakly foolish do a great deal of jawing when mistreated by the powerful, the sensible man picks himself up and totes himself far from the neighborhood wherein he is unwelcome and never says a word. Of my twenty congressmen but one offered ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... forward with a big fellow, with hair frizzled out like an old buffalo just before shedding time; and the people jawing worse than a cavayard of paroquets, stopped, while ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... unattended. An infernal swindle, when you think of the loose carts outside every pub in the county. I was jawing with the police for an hour, but it's no use. They've got it all their own ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... know yourself what you're jawing about. The lad himself has no wish to leave. Besides, what do we want with him at home? We can ...
— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al
... Bob, that's the errand-boy, and there was a bother about the money, for Bob wasn't to leave anything without being paid, and while they were jawing about that, Merry laid hold of me and said, 'Come and look for the aralia.' They got to shouting and singing, and I don't think they saw what was doing. They were nasty songs, and Merry touched me and said, 'Let us go after the aralia.' We got away without ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the horses dance and tug, and jump around and strain till the stone-boat slides on the grass, and then men climb on until the load gets so heavy that the team can't budge it. Then another team tries, and so on, the competitors jawing and jowering at each other with: "Ah, that ain't fair! That ain't ...
— Back Home • Eugene Wood
... firmness; "that is really more than I could stick. I told you—truth or untruth, the mind keeps on seeing pictures. Pack up your things. Call a coolie. The evening walk down to Nikko will do you more good than my jawing. Good-bye." ...
— Kimono • John Paris
... Americans with lubberliness came the nautical merits of the two nations ever before me to decide upon. They had the hatches open, tackles aloft, and men at work below whilst the mariners of other countries would have been standing looking on and "jawing" upon the course to be taken. Some overran the fabric aloft, clearing, cutting away, pounding, making the ice fly in storms; others sweated the capstans till they clanked; others fell to the pumps, working with hammers and kettles of boiling ...
— The Frozen Pirate • W. Clark Russell
... Matron. To stand here jawing[43] with you, we Too much good-breeding cherish; But young and tender though you be, I hope you'll ...
— Faust • Goethe
... I walked up its lawn, was noisy with the hammering and jawing of its decoration committee. Out in the glass belvedere, like superior goods on display, taking it easy while every one else worked, I saw a group of young matrons of the smart set, Ina Vandeman among them, drinking tea. The open play she was making at Worth troubled ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... I wouldn't be bothered with your business? If you must come up here jawing and talking, can't you have ...
— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope
... no use my jawing to you, because you can knock me flat at that game; and of course old Moke there"—this was Master Donkin's unhappy but inevitable designation among his friends—"is too thick to argue with a stuffed rabbit; but you had better ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... call that a head on your shoulders, or a blessed dead-eye?" cried Long John. "Don't rightly know, don't you? Perhaps you don't happen to rightly know who you was speaking to, perhaps? Come, now, what was he jawing—v'yages, cap'ns, ships? Pipe up! ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... CHOCOLATE CARAMELS—"stick-jaw", boys call them—jawing, "I go, sir," and sticking fast in Christendom. No conquest is made in assured safety, and conquest for Christ certainly cannot so ...
— The Chocolate Soldier - Heroism—The Lost Chord of Christianity • C. T. Studd
... back amidships to those we had left there, wading through the water and wreckage and tophamper strewing the waist. "The old doctor, too, looks in a precious wax and is carrying on at a grand rate about our keeping him waiting, I bet. He's jawing away now to that knowing hand of a marine of his; so the sooner we see about getting him aboard our old barquey ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson |
