"Rubbishy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "The Sycophant Tree," "Masters and masons and builders of verse!" Those were the tunes that all tongues could rehearse; But since in decay you have cast him away, Stript of his stops and his musical strings, Battered and shattered, a broken old instrument, Shoved out of sight among rubbishy things. His garlands are faded, and what he deems worst, His tongue and his palate are ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner
... alive!" he cried, "that will never do. You must never put out that sort of thing, you know. You'll have the whole city in a state of frantic excitement. It's too rubbishy sentimental. No go. Try again, old man, but don't write any more of that sort ...
— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille
... from any lukewarm lack Of zeal or fire he thus holds back— As even Lord Coal himself is not[1] For the Orange party more red-hot: But the truth is, still their Club affords A somewhat decenter show of Lords, And on its list of members gets A few less rubbishy Baronets, Lord Belzebub must beg to be Excused ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... waves like a great wall. He did it very naturally, and he draws a great deal better than those rubbishy old pictures in ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... cared about having a good time, and Katherine thought one should care chiefly about one's job. Jane supposed she was cheap, but didn't much care. She felt she would rather be herself. She had a better time, and would have a better time still before she had done; better than Johnny, with the rubbishy books he was writing and making his firm bring out for him and feeling so pleased with. Jane knew she could write better stuff than Johnny could, any day. And her books would be in addition to Gideon, and babies, ...
— Potterism - A Tragi-Farcical Tract • Rose Macaulay
... entirely proper, Jack. I look at things different like, now I be a worthy citizen. 'Tis better to fit out a little expedition of our own, if we can drag silly Bill out of his rubbishy shop." ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine
... so much!" Chia Cheng expostulated. "I'll put up for to-day," he however felt constrained to tell Pao-y, "with your haughty manner, and your rubbishy speech, so that after you have, to begin with, given us your opinion, you may next compose a device. But tell me, are there any that will do among the mottoes suggested just now by all ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... rubbishy toasting-fork away and get a cutlass, boy, as Dugdale has. Of what use do you suppose a dirk would be in a hand-to-hand fight with a great burly Spaniard? Why, none at all. I can't understand, for my part, why such useless tools ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood
... "Slip on your rubbishy old flannels!" cried Arthur contemptuously; "and a pretty guy I shall look. I shall be ashamed to walk along ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn |
