"Whopping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... animal, sir," said the boy, shortly. "Yes, it's all very well to laugh, Doctor Kingsmead, and talk about studying a whopping from a natural history point of view, but one couldn't study wasps ...
— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn
... the boy, with his eyes sparkling, "shouldn't I like to see conger too! They're whopping great chaps, arn't they, like ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... do: don't yer be too affectionate, in case I'm cross with yer,' said Noah, disengaging himself with great gravity. 'I should like to be the captain of some band, and have the whopping of 'em, and follering 'em about, unbeknown to themselves. That would suit me, if there was good profit; and if we could only get in with some gentleman of this sort, I say it would be cheap at that twenty-pound note you've got,—especially as we ...
— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens
... chalked and patched, clad in spots and spangles, dancing like mad and grinning from ear to ear. Whirling around the table, dodging the stove, vaulting the empty chairs, they stopped at last to deposit in a heap upon the floor a whopping pile of parcels and bundles, the topmost being a huge box of American Beauty roses. Almost before the wide-eyed, gaping youngsters could realise what had happened, the motley quartette vanished into the outer hall, the door banged to behind them ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon |
