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"Conk" Quotes from Famous Books

... fam appeared [7] The snore her conk betrayed, [8] Told me, that Hodge's max had queered [9] ...

— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer

... possible for me to stand by, an idle spectator of the destruction of a female who appeared to have no defender, whatever might be the nature of the offence alleged or committed. I therefore warded off the blow with my left arm, and with my right gave him a well-planted blow on the conk,{3} which sent him piping into the kennel. In a moment I was surrounded and charged with a violent assault upon the charley,{4} and interfering with the guardians of the night in the execution of their duty. A complete diversion took place from the original object of ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... first-rate—no other can come up to them in using the materials and implements they are possessed of. By the accustomed sun-mark on the floor, which Sybel prefers to the clock, she sees 'tis now the hungry hour of noon, and blows the horn for Lank to come to dinner. This horn is a conk shell, bored at one end, and its sound is heard at a great distance. At the hours of meal-time it may be heard from house to house, and, ringing through the echoing woods from distant settlements, telling us, amid their loneliness, of happy meetings at ...

— Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick • Mrs. F. Beavan

Words linked to "Conk" : go, pass out, black out, starve, die, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, snuff it, pass away, swoon, pop off, buy it, fall, succumb, nose, cash in one's chips, suffocate, go bad, pip out, decease, olfactory organ, abort, choke, United Kingdom, zonk out, hit, fail, stifle, buy the farm, be born, faint, give-up the ghost, croak, break down, U.K., Great Britain, stop, turn, asphyxiate, change state, stall, exit, yield