"Piggy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the shot to pass over his head; but he's a Briton—old Nevil's the same; but old Nevil's peculiarity is that, as you are aware, he hates a compromise—won't have it—retro Sathanas!—and Drew's proposal to take his arm instead of being carried pick-a-or piggy-back—I am ignorant how Nevil spells it—disgusts old Nevil. Still it won't do to stop where they are, like the cocoanut and pincushion of our friends the gipsies on the downs; so they take arms and commence the journey home, resembling the best friends on the evening of a holiday in our native ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... went off into fresh screams of mirth. Chicken Little had stood about all she could that afternoon. Her face flamed with wrath, and, gathering up the struggling pig in her arms, she hurled it at Katy, as the only missile within reach. Piggy just missed Katy's head, tumbling harmlessly into the ooze. Chicken Little was instantly remorseful, not on ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... ladies?" she asked. "And why Piggy and Goosie? Miss Lyall, do not let Pug go to the bowls. They are ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... at the story. You see it happened this way. Once upon a time, when Curly and his brother Flop were out in the yard of the piggy-house, playing "ring around the apple tree," their ...
— Curly and Floppy Twistytail - The Funny Piggie Boys • Howard R. Garis
... send a wire To the moon; And they'll set the Thames on fire Very soon; Then they learn to make silk purses With their rigs From the ears of LADY CIRCE'S Piggy-wigs. And weasels at their slumbers They'll trepan; To get sunbeams from cuCUMbers They've a plan. They've a firmly rooted notion They can cross the Polar Ocean, And they'll find Perpetual Motion ...
— Songs of a Savoyard • W. S. Gilbert
... an account of a boy who sat on the end of a cross-tie and was killed by a passing train. This tendency to show off for love's sake, together with the inability to make any direct declaration, is well illustrated in the love affair of Piggy Pennington, King of Boyville.[10] "Time and time again had Piggy tried to make some sign to let his feelings be known, but every time he had failed. Lying in wait for her at corners, and suddenly breaking upon her with ...
— A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes • Sanford Bell
... in his arms, it began to squeal; and the mother, hearing it, ran after him with such a frightful noise, throwing up her great, savage tusks at him, that he dropped it, and ran for his life. She stopped to smell of Piggy, and see if it was hurt; and so he got away, ...
— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various
... on?" asked Cissy cheerfully, the sight of the little roasting piggy which Molly had selected for the repast that was to welcome Teddy, with some dim association of the fatted calf that was killed on the return of the prodigal son, making her feel more assured that the time was speeding on, and that ...
— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson
... myself one day, when, over a cup of coffee, I caught sight of her small, piggy eyes leering at me with an unmistakable expression of admiration. "Does salvation lie where ...
— Castles in the Air • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... [4] Pigwiggen. "Piggy-widden" is a west-country dialect term, meaning a little white pig, used as an endearment for ...
— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
... Piggy rolls himself up tight like a ball, and Nip,—that's Magg's dog, you know,—he tries to open him, and pricks his nose, and dances round him and barks, but it's no good, piggy knows better than to open out. I've had three. Magg gets them for me. ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
... Ho! And little Bo-Peep, One story, two songs, To make the boys asleep. Say about Red Riding Hood And what the Bunyip said, Wynken song and Tom, Tom, And piggy-back ...
— The Bay and Padie Book - Kiddie Songs • Furnley Maurice
... are nothing, Queenie; we shall give them to the piggy. We shall live on wedding cake and strawberries. Tea and coffee, and such low things, we shall give to ducks. O, what ducks they will be! They will sing tunes such as canaries don't know how. We'll give them our tea and coffee, and we'll ...
— Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's • Sophie May |
