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More "Rubbishy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fancy was indulged. Thus he wandered all over the island and at all hours, sometimes even wandering out at night when the foolish fancy took him, until this was accepted as the normal thing for harmless Jock. Another innocent whim he had of making a collection of rubbishy odds and ends and keeping them in a box in the barn. He had even repeated "Lock! Lock!" and stamped his harmless foot till they good-naturedly provided him with a lock and key for this treasure chest. And thus long before August, 1914, Jock was provided with a character that rendered ...
— The Man From the Clouds • J. Storer Clouston
... so much!" Chia Cheng expostulated. "I'll put up for to-day," he however felt constrained to tell Pao-y, "with your haughty manner, and your rubbishy speech, so that after you have, to begin with, given us your opinion, you may next compose a device. But tell me, are there any that will do among the mottoes suggested just now by ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... between her silent companions, terrified at the course of events, and a little bored. She was a rubbishy little creature, and she knew it. A telegram had dragged her from Naples to the death-bed of a woman whom she had scarcely known. A word from her husband had plunged her into mourning. She desired to mourn inwardly as well, but she wished that Mrs. Wilcox, ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster
... miner in them," Arlee laughed, as they made their way over the rubbishy ground where great beams of stone and fallen statues ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... Dan. "Peg chews tobacco like a man. She'd rather have it than your rubbishy peppermints, I can tell you. I'll run down to old Mrs. Sampson's and ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... street at you, condescendingly informs you that you can go and get letters that are waiting for you, while he smokes his cigar and lolls in the shade, or in some similar way displays his second-hand rubbishy white culture—a culture far lower and less dignified than that of either the stately Mandingo or the bush chief. I do not think that the Sierra Leone dandy really means half as much insolence as he shows; but the truth is he feels too insecure of his own real ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
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