"Jacketing" Quotes from Famous Books
... ready to fling ye're stones at Tom Channing, like the badly brought up boys that ye are. I have heard of it. And my two, Gerald and Tod, the worst of ye at the game. You may look, Mr. Tod, but I'll be after giving ye a jacketing for ye're pains. Let me tell ye all, that it was not Tom Channing's brother took the bank-note; it was their brother—Gerald's and Tod's! It was my ill-doing boy, ... — The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood |