"Swot" Quotes from Famous Books
... on life, that it may be well to keep some personal record of them. I may some day want to remember some detail—perhaps the sequence of events, or something like that—and it may be useful. It ought to be, if there is any justice in things, for it will be an awful swot to write it when I have so many things to think of now. Aunt Janet, I suppose, will like to keep it locked up for me, as she does with all my journals and papers. That is one good thing about Aunt Janet amongst many: she has no curiosity, or else she has some other ... — The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker
... 'Ahr chee! Let me swot him one!' begged the man with the pistol; a most unlovable person. I could never have made a ... — The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse |