"Chore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when I was a-board of the Terp-sy-chore, there was a fore-topman, of the name of Bill Harness, a good sort of chap enough, but rather soft in the upper-works. Now, we'd been on the Jamaica station for some years, and had come home, and merry enough, and happy enough we were (those that were left of us), and we ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... neat toilet—a fresh, light summer suit that I flattered myself beat any other set of clothes in Babbletown—ordered Joe, our chore-boy, to bring the buggy around in good order, with everything shining; and when he had done so, had the horse tied in ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
... want of that academic culture and thorough technical equipment which Lowell and Longfellow enjoyed. Though his poems are not in dialect, like Lowell's Biglow Papers, he knows how to make an artistic use of homely provincial words, such as "chore," {524} which give his idyls of the hearth and the barnyard a genuine Doric cast. Whittier's prose is inferior to his verse. The fluency which was a besetting sin of his poetry when released from the fetters of rhyme and meter ran ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... shell-barks leaped Into the jaws of the Fort! And (to give her, perhaps, a chance to breathe) Knocked out some of her big, black teeth! And (to raise a better crop, no doubt, Than was ever raised there before) Ploughed her up into awful creases, Inside and out!— For now they were up and doing the chore At only four hundred yards, And the death-dealing shreds and shards Of our shell were ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various |
