"Fess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... don't know whom it's from, why do you get all red and snappy and try to hide it?" asked Evelyn, triumphantly. "'Fess up, Lucy. You might as well, first as last, for you ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... dear to let me come and tell you how mean I feel. I don't believe I should have slept to-night if I couldn't 'fess up' ...
— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick
... 1282 Guido da Montefeltro had defeated, with great slaughter, a troop, largely of French soldiers, sent against him by Pope Martin III. It was now ruled by the Ordelaffi, whose shield, party per fess, bore on its upper ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri
... issue here raised cannot be obscured by dragging me around with a rope. When Jonah was caught in a scheme of vindictive rascality he thought he "did well to be angry." The best thing the Baylorites can do is to 'fess up and reform—it's too late in the century to suppress truth with six-shooters. I have heard of no "deplorable accidents" at Add-Ran, the Christian college, consequently it has no complaints to file against the ICONOCLAST. The Convent of the Sacred Heart gets along somehow without "mishaps," ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... I 'fess I'm only humun, I hab my joys an' cares— Sum days de clouds hang hebby, sum days de skies ar' fair; But I forgib my in'miz, my heart is free frum hate, When my bread is filled wid cracklins an' dar's ...
— The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson
... haven't had as much sport in a long time as I had that afternoon last June when I came in my best calling-clothes and—helped her paint the kitchen woodwork! And I had come prepared to be a bit nasty, Lendicott! In all honesty, Lendicott, I might just as well 'fess up that I had come prepared to be just ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... spoke of Fess Derriman as not such a bad young man if you took him right and humoured him; others said that he was nobody's enemy but his own; and the elder ladies mentioned in a tone of interest that he was likely ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy |
