"Stunner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... come right over to the Excelsior Studio. Castin' director's got a part for her. Real part. Small but a stunner. Outcast girl. I s'pose she's got some old duds to ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... this a stunner?" exclaimed John, suddenly jumping up from his seat, after he had remained silent and motionless for the full space of five minutes—a most extraordinary ...
— Little By Little - or, The Cruise of the Flyaway • William Taylor Adams
... think," answered Pendleton. "Being very distantly related, Edyth and I saw quite a deal of each other when she was a slip of a girl. And she was a stunner, Kirk, even then. Kid-like, I fancied I'd get it all over with when the proper time came; but somehow I never got around to it. She turned out to be a dickens of a strong character, you see; and she expected so much of life that I got the notion that perhaps I wasn't just the right sort ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre
... back to the church just in time for the last curtain, so he can see what a stunner Mildred was in her canopy-top outfit. He's all right, Brother Bill is. Never gives me any call-down for shuntin' him off the way I did and makin' him miss most of the show. As I says to ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford
... and Athletes had not left her very far, Ere again he puffed the odours of a casual cigar; But he oftentimes lamented, as to manhood's years he grew, 'What a pity such a stunner was so ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
... coming to his side, "that old Fortress Monroe's a stunner—ain't she? I'd no idee the old woman spread her hoop skirts over ...
— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge
... blessing. Ha!" as he turned over his aunt's portfolio, "that's a stunner! You should work it ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge
... semi-lunar camp. We, all the time, as it seems, were ignorant of Lee's movements. A good staff, and what Lee did, we would have accomplished. Lee quietly found out our vulnerable point; and struck the blow. That, if you please, was a stunner. Finally: the Eleventh Corps was eleven or twelve thousand strong. The weakest in the army, equal to a strong division in a European army of one hundred thousand men. The breaking of a division or of twelve thousand men posted at the extreme ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski
... stunner, and so chivalrous. I never met a boy I liked more. Do give him a nice present, Dion, and let him feed in the ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens |
