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"Plunk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the gusts of the autumn wind, that came heavy with a smell of damp woods and of rotting fruits and of all the ferment of the over- ripe fields. Chrisfield felt it stirring the moist hair on his forehead and through the buzzing haze of the cognac heard the plunk, plunk, plunk of apples dropping that followed each gust, and the twanging of night insects, and, far in the distance, the endless rumble of guns, like tomtoms beaten ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... wish to appear contemptible?" he shouted. "D' ye think I like to sit here like an old wife, scolding in one breath and preaching thrift in the next? A weak-kneed, chicken-livered, white-bellied old bullfrog that squeaks and jumps, plunk! into the puddle when a footstep falls in the grass! Am I not a patroon? Am I not Dutch? Granted I'm fat and slow and a glutton, and lazy as a wolverine. I can fight like one, too! Don't make any ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers |
Words linked to "Plunk" : plunk down, plunker, place down, striking, nosedive, go down, put down, baseball, fall, hit, draw, go, come down, duck, force, pull, crash-dive, parachute, set down, baseball game, descend, power-dive, chute, sound, dump, colloquialism, jump, hitting, twang |
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