"Four-year-old" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shade, make a drive of unequaled beauty and pleasantness. The horse-cars have now taken away much of its romance, but in the early days it was famous for moonlight drives and their concomitants and consequences. A long-limbed four-year-old California colt gave me a romantic touch of a different sort, nearly the last time I was on the Alameda, by running away with the buggy, and breaking it and me—almost—to pieces. I am reminded of it ...
— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald
... did. So I kept an eye on these gazabos, and pretty soon I saw the hind fellow turn off the trail and go fogging along behind a little rise. He come into sight again, whipping down both sides like he was heading a wild four-year-old; and that was queer, because the only other live thing in sight was man number one, and I didn't see no reason why he should be hurting himself to get around to ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... gave Tot and Susie (that was the name of Tot's little playmate) each a fat hot jumble, and left them playing happily in the yard while she went back to her sewing. Susie was seven, so very safe company for little four-year-old Tot. After a while over ran Susie's brother, to summon her home to go with her mother ...
— Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories • M. T. W.
... not so much as him there' (pointing to Crib), 'for he knows what his business is, and I didn't. I was thrashed and starved, locked up in a gaol, chained and flogged after that, and half the time for doing what I didn't know was wrong, and couldn't know more than one of them four-year-old colts out there that knocks his head agin the yard when he's roped, and falls backards and breaks his neck if he ain't watched. Whose business was it to have learned me better? That I can't rightly say, but it seemed it was the business of the Government ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
... simply to interpret for the dead Clay and Webster their only four-year-old work, ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer
... was now engaged in giving the four-year-old his ten o'clock luncheon of bread and milk. "But don't let him get into ...
— Suzanna Stirs the Fire • Emily Calvin Blake
... winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and Harry the four-year-old, Big Charley, ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... and their ways. His son, Leonard, tells us that Julian, the grandchild of Huxley was a child made up of a combination of cherub and pickle. Huxley had been in his garden watering with a hose. The little four-year-old was with him. Huxley came in and said: "I like that chap! I like the way he looks you straight in the face and disobeys you. I told him not to go on the wet grass again. He just looked up boldly straight at me, as much as to say, 'What do you mean ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb
... secondary operation on Jews, who had been imperfectly circumcised by not having the prepuce removed sufficiently, and in whom the subsequent contraction of the preputial orifice had re-covered part of the glans, and only lately visited a four-year-old boy, circumcised when eight days old, in whom the prepuce covered half of the glans, the corona acting as a tractive point from which the penile integument was being drawn forward. In this case the simple pierced-lint Maltese cross was used, with an adhesive band to ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino |
