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"Noodle" Quotes from Famous Books

... natural and wholesome sustenance in animal food, was to be taken in the reckoning. Dr. Gannet did not allude to it; the Bevisham doctor did; and the earl meditated with a fury of wrath on the dismal chance that such a folly as this of one old vegetable idiot influencing a younger noodle, might strike ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... silly fellow trumpeting like this about? Doesn't the veriest noodle contrive to keep a quiet tongue in his head out on ...

— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet

... said Mike. "He'll never be such a noodle as to believe we two will stop here without trying ...

— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn

... feelings where there's no call for them. Why should you be grateful to me for a picture you pay me for, especially when I make you wait for it? And if I paint a picture, I suppose it's for my own pleasure and credit to paint it well, eh? Are you to thank a man for not being a rogue or a noodle? It's enough if he himself thanks Messer Domeneddio, who has made him neither the one nor the other. But women think walls are held ...

— Romola • George Eliot

... both. But that was just another shoot into the brown. You've been A1, Mary; you've done your level best. But Richard's never treated Ned fair. I don't want to take Ned's part; he's nothing in the world but a pretty-faced noodle. But Richard's treated 'im as if he was the dirt under 'is feet. And Ned's felt it. Oh, I know whose doing it was, we were never asked up to the house when you'd company. It wasn't YOURS, my dear! But we can't all have hyphens to our names, and go driving round with kid gloves on ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

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