"Clodhopper" Quotes from Famous Books
... "Hello, clodhopper," shrieked the electric car. "I didn't know there were any of you four-footed curiosities left. Surely the world has no more use for you. Where you go in half a day, I go in an hour; where you carry one man, I carry ten. If you want speed I'm just ... — Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds • Lucy Sprague Mitchell
... fields one day," said Larry, "when Guy came out and began to order me round, and call me a clodhopper and other unlikely names, which I didn't enjoy. Finally he pulled off my hat, and when I put it back on my head, he pulled it off again. Finally I found the only way to do was to give him as good as he sent. So I pulled off his hat and threw it up in a tree. He became very ... — Hector's Inheritance - or The Boys of Smith Institute • Horatio Alger |