"Dude" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scuffing his way in, his look roving and suspicious—if not a little apprehensive. But what he had to say he had saved, as was his habit, for meal time. "Sa-a-ay!" he began, helping himself to a generous portion of his favorite dish; "who's that dude that's been ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... you know? Miss Randall's, of course. She's going to marry Lord Donaster, that swell dude ...
— Jess of the Rebel Trail • H. A. Cody
... this time he is described as having almost a boyish figure, frank face, clear, penetrating eyes, and a smile of good-natured friendship and dry humor. When he talked it was with an earnestness that could not be mistaken. By those who were especially bitter against him he was sometimes called a dude and a silk stocking, but to these insinuations he paid no attention, and after the encounter at the Delavan House his opponents were decidedly more careful as ...
— American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt • Edward Stratemeyer
... so the world has changed most wondrously. It transcends the probable and rests upon such doubtful ex parte evidence that a modern court would give her a certificate of good character. It is not in accord with our criminal code to damn a woman on the unsupported deposition of a young dude whom she has had arrested for attempted ravishment. Had Joseph simply filed a general denial and proven previous good character we might suspect the madame of malicious prosecution; but he doth ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... gentleman. Not the swagger of the dude nor the cringing of a scapegoat, but the manners of a being permeated with ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various
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