"Christmas present" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nothing but the absolute truth. I meant her to be your Christmas present, but you have resigned her 'with all her works and ...
— New Faces • Myra Kelly
... Constance. "I adored my boys, but I was always enchanted to escape from them." She laughed like a girl. "Now you grasp the inwardness of my Christmas present—it is a coasting outfit. Won't she look lovely in ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... be Christmas present enough for you?" queried his father. "They'll have just about time to get here ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... I hate to ask this of you, but my need is desperate, with all this criticizing and gossip. So for old time's sake, and for the sake of the life I gave you as a Christmas present, through telling my dear father an out-and-out story, you must let me have that first promissory note, and you must direct the stork to bring the boy baby to me in England, and not to your wife ...
— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell
... her head. "It's only that I ain't got quite enough money to make him the Christmas present I'd planned for him, and what's worse I've been fool enough to write him it was coming. It's one of those new-fangled beds so that he can be wheeled around, and the end raises so that he can sit up a little. He's ...
— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick
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