"Eats" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the show the most remarkable animal that ever was—a baboon that dresses like a man, and eats at a table, using a knife and fork, and a napkin. This baboon has been playing an engagement with the Four Hundred at Newport, dining with the crowned heads at that resort, but the confounded baboon got to be too human, ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck
... though! A wee little native bear, barely eight inches long,—a little grey beast, comical beyond expression, with broad flapped ears, sits on a tree within reach. He makes no resistance, but cuddles into the child's bosom, and eats a leaf as they go along; while his mother sits aloft, and grunts indignant at the abstraction of her offspring, but, on the whole, takes it pretty comfortably, and goes on with her ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... insensible to marble can turn to the knitted woollen fabrics of which such quantities are made at Bagneres; many of them are as fine as the best Shetland work, with the additional merit of being as soft as eider-down. The barley-sugar which everybody eats at Cauterets must also be counted; for it rises there to a position which it possesses nowhere else in the world,—it is regarded as a necessity of life; the commerce in it attains such proportions ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... Tippoo. "It is a churail, an evil spirit that eats dead men, and it wants the body ...
— Adventures in Many Lands • Various
... in de vineya'd, wukin' hard and wukin' true; Now, shorely you won't notus, ef we eats a grape or two, An' takes a leetle holiday,—a leetle restin' spell,— Bekase, nex' week we'll start in fresh, an' ...
— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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