PIG • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Pig

"Pig" Quotes from Famous Books

... pig, a goat, an ox I lost: I want them back at any cost, And so retained, O woful fate! Menecles for my advocate. But tell me, will you, what have these In common with Othryades? The heroes of Thermopylae Have nought to do with ...

— Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics - Second Series • James Williams

... The old Pig said to the little pigs, 'In the forest is truffles and mast, Follow me then, all ye little pigs, ...

— Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes • Walter de la Mare

... has all the pig-headedness of his ancestors. If the colonies get the right they will have ...

— The Hero of Ticonderoga - or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys • John de Morgan

... chew tobacco. Fair-haired men generally smoke cigarettes—they do this, not for the purpose of enjoyment, but purely in imitation of their betters. However, in later life, when they become bald, as they invariably do, they also became regenerate and smoke pig-tail. Men with mouse-coloured hair do not smoke at all. They collect postage stamps and sea-shells, and are usually to be found sitting round a fire with other girls eating chocolates and seeking for replies to such questions as, when is a door not a door? and why does a chicken ...

— Here are Ladies • James Stephens

... account of a pig. The two active young men were brothers who lived in the next village to his, and the pig had been theirs—so Kwaque narrated in atrocious beche-de-mer English. He, Kwaque, had never seen the pig. He had never known of its existence until ...

— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London

More quotes...