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"Shebang" Quotes from Famous Books

... a dance one night, A mossback gave the bidding— Silver Jack bossed the shebang, and Big Dan played the fiddle. We danced and drank the livelong night With fights between the dancing, Till Silver Jack cleaned out the ranch ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

... Old Donegal. "That's good. This is some shebang. Good whiskey and good music and you." He chuckled, but it choked off into ...

— Death of a Spaceman • Walter M. Miller

... her to a dance one night, A mossback gave the bidding; Silver Jack bossed the shebang And Big Dan played the fiddle. We danced and drank, the livelong night. With fights between the dancing— Till Silver Jack cleaned out the ranch And sent ...

— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various

... the law myself, and if you drive me away, you could be arrested for breach of promise, and arson, and you would go to the penitentiary. It was all I could do to make the police believe you didn't set this old shebang afire to get the insurance, and my being here has drawn more custom to your store than the quality of your goods would warrant. No, sir, I stay right here, and advise with you, and keep you out of trouble. If I went home and told dad ...

— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck

... that you didn't fool us, lad," he said with a leer. "See that you mind me hereafter. Now show me how the shebang works." ...

— Five Thousand Miles Underground • Roy Rockwood

... that," was Santry's dry comment. "All that saved you from gettin' shot up some in the fight was layin' low down in that corner where you was." He let his eyes travel around the littered, blood-spattered room. "From the looks o' this shebang we musta stung some of 'em pretty deep; but nobody was killed, I reckon. I hope Moran was the ...

— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony

... the whole shebang on its ear. Last I heard, the planet had broken up into three main camps. They were whaling away at each other like the Assyrians and Egyptians. Iron weapons, chariots, domesticated horses. Agriculture was sweeping the planet. Population was exploding. Men were making ...

— Ultima Thule • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... "What's all the grand shebang about this time?" he queried, shoving the algebra aside and taking up the newspaper that ...

— The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet • James R. Driscoll

Words linked to "Shebang" : scheme, system