"Biggish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this treasure-trove by a painstaking search of the hills?" asked Zurich doubtfully. "It's a biggish country." ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... master and the mistress, and, say a couple of small children, let the lady take her turn. After all, it's only her duty, same as the office or the shop is the man's. Where, on the other 'and, there are biggish boys and gals about the place, well it wouldn't do them any 'arm to be taught to play a little less, and to look after themselves a little more. It's just arranging things—that's all ...
— Idle Ideas in 1905 • Jerome K. Jerome
... Houghton, to a moral; and do you stick to me. They generally go straight away to Thrupp's larches. You see the little wood. There's an old earth there, but that's stopped. There is only one fence between this and that, a biggish ditch, with a bit of a hedge on this side, but it's nothing to the ...
— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope
... of me, and even with my full strength I could not have kept afloat long—had not a break in the clouds let through a dash of moonlight that gave me another chance. It was only for a moment or two that the moonlight lasted, yet long enough for me to make out within a hundred feet of me a biggish piece of wreckage—which but for that flash I should not have noticed, or in the dimness would have taken only for a bunch ...
— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier |
