"Dead ringer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as if he were deciding whether or not to get rid of Anne Boleyn. It was, Malone thought, an unusually apt simile. Boyd, six feet tall and weighing about two hundred and twenty-five pounds, had a large square face and a broad-beamed figure that might have made him a dead ringer for Henry VIII of England even without his Henry-like fringe of beard and his mustache. With them—thanks to the recent FBI rule that agents could wear "facial hair, at the discretion of the director or such board as he may appoint"—the resemblance to the Tudor ...
— Out Like a Light • Gordon Randall Garrett
... from one side comes this boat; no ordinary property piece faked up from something in stock; but a life sized model that's a dead ringer for the old Queen of the Seas, even to the stovepipe and the shirts hung from the forestay. It comes floatin' in lazy and natural, and when Cap Spiller goes forward to heave over the anchor he drops it with a splash ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford |
