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"Prog" Quotes from Famous Books

... of negroes began to dash by laden with all sorts of "prog" [booty] from the wrecked stores. Grandmamma had lain down, my aunts were trying to make up some sort of midday meal, and I was standing alone behind the jalousies, when a ferocious-looking negro ...

— The Flower of the Chapdelaines • George W. Cable

... side, and below the boxes, "Tools" and "Eating," already mentioned, are two large iron cases, labelled "Prog,"—a brief announcement which vastly troubled the brains of several French visitors, whose English etymology did not extend ...

— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... others sometimes call me "Old Prog. Smith," and I am more proud of that pleasantry than ...

— John Henry Smith - A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life • Frederick Upham Adams

... alone in the library for a while, and returning found him amusing himself over the 'Ingoldsby Legends.' He was reading the 'Coronation of Victoria,' and laughing over Count Froganoff, who could not get 'prog enough,' and was 'found eating underneath the stairs.' He wants to have a dinner for Bayard Taylor, whose coming is always the signal for a series of small festivities. His own 'Divine Tragedy' is just out, and everybody speaks of its simplicity ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

... the prog-bag, Mas'r Harry, as soon as we get there; and I've brought this bit of rope so as to sling the skin bags over my ...

— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn