"Hoodoo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... waist, ran toward the house and threw open the door for her to enter. The intense heat of two great stoves struck in their faces; and Annie saw the big burner, erected in all its black hideousness in the middle of the front room, like a sort of household hoodoo, to be constantly propitiated, like the gods of Greece; and in the kitchen, the new range, with a distracted tea-kettle leaping on it, as if it would like to loose its fetters and race away over the prairie after its cousin, ...
— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie
... prove to be a hoodoo," laughed Ruth. "I've thought more than once that I shouldn't have teased my father to take ...
— Doubloons—and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes
... the change in my team. They had come hack. The hoodoo had vanished. The championship ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey
... fire was kindled, and she required her husband to remove it at once from the top of the stove to the mantel under the mirror, which was the natural habitat of such a clock. He said nothing could be simpler, but when he lifted it, it began to fall all apart, like a clock in the house of the Hoodoo. Its marble base dropped-off; its pillars tottered; its pediment swayed to one side. While Mrs. March lamented her hard fate, and implored him to hurry it together before any one came, he contrived to reconstruct it in its ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... its cost value, or a loan raised on it, and the whole enterprise abandoned; but that experienced real estate dealer was not so sanguine. He had had one or two failures of this kind before. He was superstitious about anything which did not go smoothly from the beginning. If it didn't go it was a hoodoo—a black shadow—and he wanted no more to do with it. Other real estate men, as he knew to his cost, were ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser
... I a turnip? On the strict Q.T., Why do my Trilbys get so ossified? Why am I minus when it's up to me To brace my Paris Pansy for a glide? Once more my hoodoo's thrown the game and scored A flock of ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) • Various
... strangeness in one they dearly loved. But it was through Rosalie that the mother heard that the same thing had gone on at school. There, the other girls had superstitiously but secretly named Rosanne "The Hoodoo Girl," because to have much to do with her always brought you bad luck, especially if you fell out with her. In fact, whenever you crossed her in any way, "something happened," ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... on the ways, ripping the scaffolding to pieces like a whale thrashing a raft apart. Suppose she careened and stuck or rolled over in the mud. Such things had happened and might happen again. The Mamise had suffered so many mishaps that the other ship crews called her a hoodoo. ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes |
