"Stick-in-the-mud" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a sure thing of it next time; but it won't do to run away with a boat again. Hush up! There comes that old stick-in-the-mud from the Josephine," added Perth, lowering his ...
— Dikes and Ditches - Young America in Holland and Belguim • Oliver Optic
... and fondest of telling stories with sailors in an inn. He learned to be content in most companies and to fare roughly; but he gained neither wisdom nor humour, and he was not either happy or independent, though he despised with all his heart the stay-at- home, stick-in-the-mud life. ...
— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson
... "Well, old stick-in-the-mud," said Orde as, at the end of two days, the men thawed out in a smoking car, "ducks enough ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White |
