"Flunk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pass, I get my choice of three dandy fishing rods," he explained to Rosemary. "And if I flunk, I have to work in the garden all summer without ...
— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence
... and then the upper house bell, and Charles Tolls horses came galoping down to the fountain ingine house with Mat Sleeper driving. And Mager Blakes horses went by jest lickety larup for the Torrent ingine house with old Brown driving, and then Flunk Ham came piling into the church and said, give me that roap and he puled like time, then sum peeple came runing in and said where is the fire, and Flunk he said we dident know, and then we herd the ingine and went out and they was the Torrent ...
— 'Sequil' - Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First • Henry A. Shute
... Slick," said he, leaving off his cant, and really looking like a different man, "dod drot it, it is a just punishment. I knock under, I holler, I give in, have mercy on me. Can you rid me of this horrid mark, for I can't flunk out in the ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... after the game had resulted in a victory for the visitors by a one-sided score, and he was walking back with Joe to the hotel, "did he make such a miserable flunk at the first two ...
— Baseball Joe Around the World - Pitching on a Grand Tour • Lester Chadwick
... pin-headed preachers like Weldon do a lot of harm, running about the country talking. He's sent around to pull in students for his own school. If he didn't get them he'd lose his job. I wish he'd never got me. Most of the fellows who flunk out at the State come to us, just ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather
... training-house with long faces. When we get in you run up-stairs as if you couldn't face any one, but be sure to sneak back to the head of the stairs to see and hear the fun. I'll fix Worry all right. Now, don't flunk. It's ...
— The Young Pitcher • Zane Grey
... with sarcasm. "I am quite aware that you are at the pinnacle of eminence, even if you do flunk in Greek occasionally." ...
— Risen from the Ranks - Harry Walton's Success • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... blinked once or twice. This question out of its context was not illuminating. It was a part of her philosophy, however, never to flunk ...
— When Patty Went to College • Jean Webster
... "and do you remember the time you predicted I was going to flunk math at midyears and I took ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... big eater, either, and I have worked hard, and—well, I might have been worse off, but I must say I have seen men who seemed to me happier, though I have made the best of things. I always did despise a flunk. But you! I heard you had adopted a baby," he said, with a sudden glance at the blue and white bundle in the carriage, "and I thought you were mighty sensible. When people grow old they want young people growing around them, staffs for old age, you know, and all that sort of thing. Don't ...
— The Yates Pride • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
