"Left over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suppose, that they should handle our old delights with rather a professional grasp. One day recently a little girl, a new acquaintance, came to see me. I brought out various toys, left over from my childhood, for her amusement—a doll, with the trunk that still contained her wardrobe; an autograph album, with "verses" and sketches in it; and a "joining map," such as the brother of Rosamond of the ...
— The American Child • Elizabeth McCracken
... he said. "I've got the telephone together and have enough left over to make another. Where do you suppose Harbison hides the tools? I'm working with a corkscrew and two ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Shrewsbury School; some to the British Museum; one, an unfinished sketch of the back of the house in which Keats died on the Piazza di Spagna, Rome, to the Keats and Shelley Memorial there; many were distributed among his friends, Alfred Cathie taking fifteen and I taking all that were left over. Alfred lives in Canal Road, Mile End, and, this being on the route of the German air-raids, he was anxious to put his pictures in a place of safety. Accordingly it was arranged between us in 1917 that I should buy them from ...
— The Samuel Butler Collection - at Saint John's College Cambridge • Henry Festing Jones
... was a toadstool with a spider-woven cover; The fare was served in rose-leaf plates and bluebell cups a-ring— Sweet honey from the latest bloom, and last night's dew left over, And a crumb of mortal cake for which an ant went pilfering. A mockingbird within the hedge sang loudly for their revel; A lily swayed above them, slow, to keep the moths away; So they laughed and buzzed and chattered till the shadows lengthened level, And Miss Katydid said sadly that ...
— Zodiac Town - The Rhymes of Amos and Ann • Nancy Byrd Turner
... girl loved him. She knew that he had but a hundred pounds or so left over from that little inheritance, that his books sold for a trifle, that he had no wealthy relatives from whom he could expect anything; yet she hesitated not a moment when he asked her ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
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