"Codger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never occur to you as a virtue in her that she puts herself out to entertain—even, Madame, I flatter myself to fancy—a withered old codger like me!" ...
— The Readjustment • Will Irwin
... with you. I'm going to face that old codger and tell him what I think of his fiendish tricks of killing us off by this beastly juramentado, when he claims to be at peace ...
— The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy - A Book for Young and Old • Florence Partello Stuart
... of 'em, now Ambersons brought 'em to town. Yes, sir, the rest'll eat 'em, whether they get sick or not! Looks to me like some people in this city'd be willing to go crazy if they thought that would help 'em to be as high-toned as Ambersons. Old Aleck Minafer—he's about the closest old codger we got—he come in my office the other day, and he pretty near had a stroke tellin' me about his daughter Fanny. Seems Miss Isabel Amberson's got some kind of a dog—they call it a Saint Bernard—and Fanny was bound to have one, too. Well, old Aleck told her he didn't like dogs except ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
... about this whole business," says Uncle Jimmy. "It's an awful lot of money for an old codger like me to handle. I tried to git young Mr. Fowler to take half of it back; but he only laughs and says he couldn't do that, and guessed how he and the wife was worth that much, anyway. Besides, I expect he ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford
... across the gully and spoke half absently), "besides that, it would be fine to have that extra time. Maybe we couldn't use it all this season, but—look, I can hit that thin tree every time—but I'm thinking of the little codger mostly; you know the one I ...
— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... sentiment there; act towards each other pretty much as they always have," said Arthur to himself, taking a cigar from his pocket and lighting it with a match. "I wonder now what's the attraction to her for an old codger like that," he added watching the smoke as it curled lazily up from ...
— Elsie's Womanhood • Martha Finley
... eye of him, though. The swell as give me the yellow-boy—he's his master! Poor old codger! He'll believe any cove but the one ...
— Stephen Archer and Other Tales • George MacDonald
... pocket as I was passing. She came up and accused me with stealing her purse. I, of course, allowed her to search me, and asked her to fetch a 'bobby,' if she was not satisfied. Well, I followed the old countryman and accused him of stealing my purse. And, my Crikey! if you had only seen how the old codger looked when he found the purse in his pocket. I threatened to give him in charge of the first 'copper' I saw; and he was so frightened that I actually got a 'quid' out of him to let ...
— Six Years in the Prisons of England • A Merchant - Anonymous
... 'Codger's the lady so often mentioned in the English newspapers I should think, sir,' whispered Mark. 'The oldest inhabitant ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... Well, I suppose it's only natural. Biology is a dry subject for a girl; and I am a pretty dry old codger. ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw
... used to talk, an' some used to set him down as a tyrant, an' some had him guessed in as a rough old codger with a soft heart,—everybody took a guess at him,—but the blood in the turnip was that ol' Jabez Judson was purty tol'able sizey when you carne to fence him in. Everybody called him Cast Steel Judson, an' you might work through ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason
... like we were up against it," admitted Jim, "but we have a fighting chance, and I propose to keep on that old codger's trail." ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt
... your full name on your labels?" asked Nort of the queer old codger one day, when the boys were visiting him in his, or, rather, their cave, which he had fitted up to live in while he did his brewing. "You just call it ...
— The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley - or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery • Willard F. Baker
... like having a rep for being one of the Bunch, but if you ever needed me I'd chuck it and come out for you every time! Not of course but what you're—course I don't mean you'd ever do anything that would put—that would put a decent position on the fritz but—See how I mean? I'm kind of a clumsy old codger, and I need your fine Eyetalian hand. We—Oh, hell, I can't stand here gassing all day! On the job! S' long! Don't take any wooden money, Paulibus! ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... be," she said, and then to her mother she unfolded her plan of having Dora go home with them immediately. "I'd as soon be in Joppa as to stay here with her for a rival," she said. "Mr. Hastings don't care for me, I know, and I hate that old codger of a Hamilton, with his sarcastic remarks and prying eyes. I've been here long enough, and I mean ...
— Dora Deane • Mary J. Holmes |
