"Whey-faced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of a she in the inn over there Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer; May the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair, And beat bad manners out of her skin ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... I don't want to go to school with a bunch of whey-faced gets, and masters lean and mean as rats, and a principal puffed out like ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
... Catherine Earnshaw is a world of spiritual affinities, of spiritual contacts and recoils where love begets and bears love, and hate is begotten of hate and born of shame. Even Linton Heathcliff, that "whey-faced, whining wretch", that physical degenerate, demonstrates the higher law. His weakness is begotten by his father's ...
— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair
... sneak-thieves, mud-larking crab-catchers, pitchy-fingered slipper-botchers, huddling opium-eaters, swindling knacker-sellers, petty hucksters, ye ragged, filthy, whey-faced tipplers!—I, Abdi, the Kapudan Pasha, say it to you, and I only regret that I have not the tongue of a Giaour of the Hungarian race that I might be able to heap upon you all the curses and reproaches that ...
— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai |
