"Gip" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leathering, now. Your time's come round for breeches down, old boy: But don't be scared; for I'm no walloper— Too like hard work! My son's a clean white skin: He's never skirled, as you made me. By gox, You gave me gip: my back still bears the stripes Of the loundering I got the night I left. But I bear no malice, you old bag-of-bones: And where's the satisfaction in committing Assault and battery on a blasted scarecrow? 'Twas basting hot young flesh ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
... half closet beside the chimney and she had the top shelf for her own. It was so neat that it looked like a doll's house. Her only doll had been a "rag baby," and Gip, ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas
... and I are going back to Wisconsin in September. I shall be very glad to see my little cousin Harry and my dog Gip. ...
— Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, ventriloquist dolls, the material of the basket trick, packs of cards that looked all right, and all that sort of thing, but never had I thought of going in until one day, almost without warning, Gip hauled me by my finger right up to the window, and so conducted himself that there was nothing for it but to take him in. I had not thought the place was there, to tell the truth—a modest-sized frontage ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... grasp): Easy on! Peter's no lad to take a leathering, now. Your time's come round for breeches down, old boy: But don't be scared; for I'm no walloper— Too like hard work! My son's a clean white skin: He's never skirled, as you made me. By gox, You gave me gip: my back still bears the stripes Of the loundering I got the night I left. But I bear no malice, you old bag-of-bones: And where's the satisfaction in committing Assault and battery on a blasted scarecrow? 'Twas basting hot young flesh that you enjoyed: ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson |
