"Clothesline" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the corner of the stack into my nook, to lay a few plans, and to hastily review the ethics of the matter; now I crept back to feast my eyes once more on the ——, before making my coup-de-clothesline. But another object met my sight first; and I nearly fainted. When I recovered myself, a few minutes later, I was in the lagoon. I daren't swim across, for I would have been in full view from the stack. A cluster of leafy reeds, growing in two feet of ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... but a common kitchen table. He turned it upside down, took his Scout axe from its sheath, knocked the legs off, fastened a piece of clothesline to the butts ...
— A Little Book for Christmas • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... the glow. The great suspended stud; the background of shelves and boxes; the scissors-like overalls against the wall; a clothesline of children's factory-made print frocks; a center-bin of women's untrimmed hats; a headless dummy beside the door, enveloped ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... her flowing tail. Hiram had time only to grab his hat and throw himself forward along the mare's neck; the next instant it seemed as if a million tugging hands had hold of him and were trying to whirl him into the heavens and carry him, like a garment whipped from a clothesline, into mysterious distances. ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... There was a clothesline strung down the whole length of the kitchen. This Johnnie lowered on a washday to his own easy reach. At other times it was raised out of the ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... palm will show you that after this trip through Spain my clothesline needs washing. But, what's ...
— The Ghost Breaker - A Novel Based Upon the Play • Charles Goddard |
