"Toff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mused the other. "I can do with a pint or two meself when the day's work is finished an' the car safely locked up for the night. But that Dale! he's a walkin' beer-barrel. Lord love a duck! what a soakin' he gev' me in Brighton. Some lah-di-dah toff swaggered into the garage that evenin', and handed Dale a fiver—five golden quidlets, if you please—which my nibs had won on a horse at Epsom. I must say, though, Dale did the thing handsome—quart bottles o' Bass opened every ten minutes. Thank you, my dear"—this to the waitress, ...
— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy
... saying flashed into King's mind, and he remembered the first time he had heard it, the night when he had put away Stowsher Bill. The toff who had bought him a drink after the fight and patted him on the shoulder had used those words. Youth will be served! The toff was right. And on that night in the long ago he had been Youth. To-night Youth ...
— When God Laughs and Other Stories • Jack London
... to the upper deck, would you? And who, may I ask, do you take yourself for, a-trying to speak like a toff?" The man turned his back to Lavis. "Swine!" he ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... "We are delighted to accept your kind invitation to dine with you. Pray pardon the togs. I feel like a regular 'toff,' don't you know, but my studs are for the moment lost. And what is a frock without ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose
... have dam toff time, Ah theenk," Breyette voiced his conviction. "Feller lak heem got no beesness ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair |
