"Awk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... awk'ard," ses old Cook, rubbing his 'cad. "Fact is, Charlie, we pretty near gave 'em to understand ...
— Captains All and Others • W.W. Jacobs
... kinder like to see how ye were gettin' on,' was the answer. 'New settlers is so precious awk'ard. Thought I'd loaf about awhile, an' see. It's ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... "Awk'ard? you blue spider," cried the Captain; "you deserve to be keel-hauled, or pitched into a crevasse. Look alive now, an' clear up the ...
— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... crib, and two-quid-screw, for betting's now my walk; I do my mornin' march Down to the Marble Arch. I'm bound to spot more winners; I've a eye that's like a 'awk; I'm a mass of oof and 'air-oil, shine and starch; Yus, a reg'lar mass of ochre, shine ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 • Various |
