"Piggy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the meal, an Illustrious Lady, negotiating a pigeon after the German fashion, took up one of its bones with her finger and thumb. The little visitor, whose sense of British propriety was stronger than her awe of Courts, regarded the proceeding with wonder-dilated eyes, and then burst out, "Oh, Piggy-wiggy, Piggy-wiggy! You are Piggy-wiggy." Probably she is now languishing in the ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... him if it could, but it could not, and so stopped there quite still while Boxer put his cold black nose up to it, and stood wagging his thick stumpy tail; for he was too generous a dog to meddle with anyone in trouble, even a hedgehog; and piggy, feeling that he was in distress, and an object of sympathy, did not even attempt to curl up, but lay quite still, waiting for ...
— Featherland - How the Birds lived at Greenlawn • George Manville Fenn
... of the Martin children begged their mother to buy the parrot from Mr. Bullfinch. Jerry rashly promised all his allowance for May. Cathy wouldn't go as far as that but she would spare a dollar. And Andy trotted off for his piggy ...
— Jerry's Charge Account • Hazel Hutchins Wilson
... now that you are here," said Don, and he took his strong, white teeth from the piggy boy's ear. "I did not bite him hard enough to hurt him," said Don. "But I had to catch hold of him somewhere, and taking him by the ear was better than taking him by the tail, ...
— Squinty the Comical Pig - His Many Adventures • Richard Barnum
... Parson Carryl he driv into the yard, full chizel, with his pig. He'd tied up his mouth to keep him from squeelin'; and he see what he thought was the pig-pen,—he was rather nearsighted,—and so he ran and threw piggy over; and down he dropped into the water, and the minister put out his horse and pranced off into the house ...
— Oldtown Fireside Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... no talking. Sound like a bird; but I think it's a little guinea-piggy sort of thing. I believe they live in holes like rats, and come out and call to one another ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... Piggy Wiggy," said the pancake, and without a word more it began to roll and roll ...
— East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon • Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen
... to stand up on it. The boys came across the pig, which was frightened and attempted to run. After running a little, he would slip on the ice and slide and tumble over, and then gather himself up again and try once more. There was a general shout and a general chase. Poor piggy strove to elude his pursuers. His own tail was a little slippery, so that if a boy caught it he did not hold it long. The whole college, pretty much, engaged in the pursuit, which certainly seemed to be great fun. But, on a sudden, there was a loud, angry shout from a stentorian ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... escaped death by a passenger engine. One writer gives an account of a boy who sat on the end of a cross-tie and was killed by a passing train. This tendency to show off for love's sake, together with the inability to make any direct declaration, is well illustrated in the love affair of Piggy Pennington, King of Boyville.[10] "Time and time again had Piggy tried to make some sign to let his feelings be known, but every time he had failed. Lying in wait for her at corners, and suddenly breaking upon her with ...
— A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes • Sanford Bell
... stammered Pat, "an' the day ye was born! Faith how in the divil d'ye think Oi can tell Till Oi hear the ividince?" Pat reckoned well; For the witness was sworn and the facts he revealed— How Pat stole the piggy and how the pig squealed, Whose piggy the pig was and what he was worth, And the slits in his ears and his tail and—so forth; But he never once said, 'in the county of Meath,'[CX] So Pat he escaped by the skin ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon |
