"Double Dutch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little cottage, composed chiefly of bulging balconies, scarlet and yellow with geraniums and nasturtiums, casement windows with tiny leaded panes, and double Dutch doors, evidently practicable. It had all the air of having retired from the other scenery to practice for its own act, and it seemed highly probable that a chorus of happy short-skirted peasantry would ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... Dosser, a reglar Old Clo' at dead langwidges, classicks, and such, Says it's met'em-see-kosis—a thing as to me, mate, is jest Double Dutch, Means a soul on the shift, as it were, CHARLIE, tryin' fust this form, then that, So that 'ARRY, who once was a donkey, might some o' these days be ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 26, 1891 • Various
... that I was surprised even at Mr. Maturin's engaging you after that; but it will depend upon yourself how long I allow him to persist in so curious an experiment. As for what is the matter with him, my good fellow, it is no use my giving you an answer which would be double Dutch to you; moreover, I have still to test your discretionary powers. I may say, however, that that poor gentleman presents at once the most complex and most troublesome case, which is responsibility enough without certain features which make it all but insupportable. ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung |
