"Elbow grease" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hummocks and mesquite, like the rest of the desert. Spent a lot of money levelling it and getting it ready to water. He lives at Los Angeles, and is one of those fellows who try to farm with money instead of brains and elbow grease. Lost a lot on last year's crop, and now he wants to get rid of ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby
... "Elbow grease and nothing else," answered Mrs. Peavey in a tone of voice that refused to be mollified. "I've got to ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess
... those wet clothes off at once, Mr. Smart, and go to bed with a hot water bottle and ten grains of quinine. You'll be very ill if you don't. Put a lot more elbow grease into those oars, Max. Get a move on you. Do you want Mr. ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... want ter pay no road-taxes. An' Silas Boyd 'lows he don't want ter be obligated ter work on no sech rough road ez this hyar one air obleeged ter be; an' I reckon, fust an' last, it will take a power o' elbow grease." ...
— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock |
