"Maverick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... journey was not so unpleasant. Jack was much interested in listening to the talk of the two men. They discussed everything from the latest make of cartridges and revolvers to the best way to rope a steer and brand a maverick. ...
— Jack Ranger's Western Trip - From Boarding School to Ranch and Range • Clarence Young
... nothing more could be done in Plymouth, proceedings were transferred to Massachusetts. Samuel Maverick is a bright patch of color on the sad Puritan background. He had a dwelling at Winnisime, that "in the yeare 1625 I fortified with a pillizado and fflankers and gunnes both belowe and above in them which awed the Indians ...
— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams
... harshly and grinned over at Lefty. "Some of you maverick psis scream like a gelded porker," he said. "I figgered you'd tell me we'd cost you a fortune in prospective poker ...
— Card Trick • Walter Bupp AKA Randall Garrett
... guess you're right about the boys, Bill. I'll let 'em sleep an' we'll talk to this maverick in the mornin'. Keep him under ...
— The Free Range • Francis William Sullivan
... swear no oaths but those of their own making, which were rare and curious, and they were always at pains to impress Mulcahy with the risks they ran. Naturally the flood of beer wrought demoralisation. But Mulcahy confused the causes of things, and when a very muzzy Maverick smote a sergeant on the nose or called his commanding officer a bald- headed old lard-bladder and even worse names, he fancied that rebellion and not liquor was at the bottom of the outbreak. Other gentlemen who have concerned ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... old hornless maverick, d'you think I'm on somebody's trail? Don't you know I've been through with that sort of game for a hell of ...
— Trailin'! • Max Brand
... man himself it was a wholly indifferent matter. In the solitude of his study, however, it recalled a neglected duty, and in so far seemed a blessing. By such paltry threads are the colors woven into our life! It recalled his friend Maverick and his jaunty prediction; and upon that came to him a recollection of the promise which he had made to Rachel, that he would write ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... of an insurrection on a small scale, occurred on Noddle's Island, now East Boston, in 1638. In John Josselyn's account of his first voyage to New England may be found the following. Having previously stated that he was a guest of "Mr. Samuel Maverick, the only hospitable man (as he says) in all the country, giving entertainment to all comers ...
— An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, • Joshua Coffin
... beeves, goats, and hogs";[14] and Harvey declared that Virginia had become "the granary of all his majesty's northern colonies,"[15] Yet from an imported pestilence, the year 1636 was so replete with misery that Samuel Maverick, of Massachusetts, who visited the colony, reported that eighteen hundred persons died, and corn sold at ...
— England in America, 1580-1652 • Lyon Gardiner Tyler
... much as I have to, just for the sheer joy of hearing you kick like a Texas maverick by the time you've had the cart handles for two minutes," laughed Tom, as he took his own parcels off the cart. "Now, David, little giant, let us see you buckle down to your task—-like ...
— The High School Boys' Fishing Trip • H. Irving Hancock
... In the colonial days, however, it was a source of profit assiduously cultivated by coastwise communities, and both on Long Island and Cape Cod citizens were officially enjoined to watch for whales off shore. Whales were then seen daily in New York harbor, and in 1669 one Samuel Maverick recorded in a letter that thirteen whales had been taken along the south shore during the winter, ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot
... a group of poems written and printed by Harvey White. The Maverick Press; Woodstock, ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
