"Aboveboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... partners, though the game is nearing its end. As a rule I am for straight, aboveboard play, but there are moments when a man is strongly ...
— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie
... apparatus, or condescended to some concealment, after the manner of others of this kind, there might have been a chance of finding a means of exposure; but the whole performance had been so transparently open and aboveboard that Professor Marcus Hartley, D.Sc., M.A., F.R.S., etc., etc., felt that, as a consistent materialist, he had not been given a fair chance. Still, he did not despair; and by the time he got back into his own den he had resolved that ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith
... no man would 'a' supposed 't he could get the better o' me. It's a sad thing to have to own to, 'n' if I was anybody else in kingdom come I 'd never own to it till I got there; but my way is to live open 'n' aboveboard, 'n' so to my shame be 't told 't the minister—with all 't he's got eight children 'n' I ain't even married—is certainly as sharp as me. Last night when I see him comin' up the walk I never 'd 'a' believed 's he c'd get ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop • Anne Warner |
