"Bub" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... especially the last. He teased and bribed till he was admitted to the secret. It consisted in spelling every word, leaving the five vowels as they are, but doubling each consonant and putting a "u" between. Thus "b" became "bub," "d" "dud," "m" "mum," and so forth, except that "c" was "suk," "h" "hash," "x" "zux," and ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... the meaning of this outrageous hub-bub?" cried Professor Jenks, who, on account of his exceeding height, ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish
... face of a man whom the Keith boys had seen to-night for the first time. He had paid his seventy-five cents, and had received his numbered ticket like the others, by which simple ceremony all the requirements of ranch etiquette were fulfilled. Bub Quinn they called him—Bub Quinn from the Divide. Rather a nice-looking fellow, the brothers had agreed, attracted by his brilliant smile and hearty hand-shake. It was Bub Quinn who had brought the girl that Joe was dancing with, and now that Lem ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller
... to speak to a boy whose father stole from his father? Was I going to speak to Bub, when his father accused mine ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various
... Wind kommt, Wenn Waelder erzittern Kommt, wie die Brandung Wenn Flotten zersplittern! Schnell heran, schnell herab, Schneller kommt Al'e!—Haeuptling und Bub' ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... I can find in the pantry, bub," answered Amy; "can't you make it answer for to-night? and to-morrow I will buy you something ...
— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton
... "So, Bub, when you think that by breathing on your coat sleeve to kill the whisky you can fool your pa, you are wrong. Your pa in his day ate three carloads of cardamon seeds and cloves and used listerine by the barrel. He knew which was ...
— In Our Town • William Allen White
... an impatient ejaculation. It was one of his peculiarities to give a bark similar to that of a dog when greatly annoyed. After staring at the boy a while he took out Will Morrison's letter to Talbot, opened it and held it before Bub's face. ...
— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)
... more. I never heard of such a thing, what business is it of his whether I am developed or not! Hella thinks that I was not quite particular enough in my choice of companions. She says that Bob is still nothing but a Bub [young cub]. That suits him perfectly, Bob—Bub; now we shall never call him anything but Bub; that is if we ever speak of him at all. When we don't like some one we shall call him simply Bob, or better still B., for we really ...
— A Young Girl's Diary • An Anonymous Young Girl
... multiplied by five, and of seven by ten, are both forty, and that their combined 422:1 sum is fifty, and then calling the process mathematics. Wiser than his persecutors, Jesus said: "If I by Beelze- 422:3 bub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... gueld a Cod-peece of a Purse: I would haue fill'd Keyes of that hung in Chaynes: no hearing, no feeling, but my Sirs Song, and admiring the Nothing of it. So that in this time of Lethargie, I pickd and cut most of their Festiuall Purses: And had not the old-man come in with a Whoo-bub against his Daughter, and the Kings Sonne, and scar'd my Chowghes from the Chaffe, I had not left a Purse aliue ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... happened to be tinkering his water-wheel, so the boy got his bags into a dark corner unobserved, and with a handful of mill dust gave his work the finishing touch of ripe old age. I dare say you think he took the man in, but he didn't. 'Bub,' said the miller, 'I used to ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther
... been on the scales in years, bub," said Mrs. Egg equably; "not since about when you was born. Does your mamma ever wash out ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... "I'll send Bub Smith to Senator Logan'ses the minute I get back; for much as I want to obleege a neighbor, I can't traipse all over Washington, walkin' afoot, and carryin' Dorlesky's errent. But Bub is trusty: I'll send him." And ...
— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley) |
