"Sky-high" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... several of the editors, including Major M. M. Noah, M. Y. Beach, my good friends West, Herrick, and Ropes, of the Atlas, and others, and stated my grievances. 'Now,' said I, 'if you will grant me the use of your columns, I'll blow that speculation sky-high.' They all consented, and I wrote a large number of squibs, cautioning the public against buying the Museum stock, ridiculing the idea of a board of broken-down bank directors engaging in the exhibition of stuffed ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton
... in his fallen and degraded state. That was exactly the character of the thriving city of Eden, as poetically heightened by Zephaniah Scadder, General Choke, and other worthies; part and parcel of the talons of that great American Eagle, which is always airing itself sky-high in purest aether, and never, no never, never, tumbles down with draggled wings ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... the greenest corner of England. There are serenades and suppers and much gallantry among the myrtles overhead; and meanwhile the foundation shudders underfoot, the bowels of the mountain growl, and at any moment living ruin may leap sky-high into the moonlight, and tumble man and his merry-making in the dust. In the eyes of very young people, and very dull old ones, there is something indescribably reckless and desperate in such a picture. It seems not ...
— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson
... comfortably settled with their backs to the door. "That must be the thing that governs us—that, and the sacrifice of as few lives as possible. Not their lives, of course. I don't care a curse for the Fernalds; the more of them that go sky-high the better, in my estimation. It's the men I mean, our own people. Some of them will have to die, I know that. It's unavoidable, since the factories are never empty. Even when no night shifts are working, there are always watchmen and engineers on the job. But fortunately just now, owing ...
— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett
... old woman. "Death and destruction. Yo' fine big ship, the Kennebunk ship, will be blowed sky-high. It's a comin'! Mark Old Mag's prophecy, ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson
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