"Plunk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it," said the mate. "A fine place to be high and dry and a U-boat come along in the morning and plunk us another few shells between our livers and lights. I'm tired of ...
— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly
... swallowed twice, and got up so abruptly that Lovin Child sat down again with a plunk. Cash muttered something in his throat and rushed out into the wind and the slow-falling tiny white flakes ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... that mansion used to be Free-hearted hospitality; But that was many years before Jemima monkeyed with the score. When she began her daily plunk, Into their graves the neighbors sunk. Do, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
... the deliberate plunk, plunk, plunk, plunk of the white mare's large and capable feet as the cab whirred softly along the pavement. "I suppose you'll be takin' me over to Sanborn ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... pumpkin patch—also the mad dash, dash, dash of the farmer, the low moan of the disabled and frozen-toed hen as the whooping horsemen run her down; the wild shriek of the children, the low melancholy wail of the frightened shoat as he flees away to the straw pile, the quick yet muffled plunk of the frozen tomato and the dull scrunch ...
— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye
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