"Jawing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as if he had struck her, but she only tossed her head and stiffened her under lip, and said: "Jawing again, are ye? I'd chuck it for once, Charlie, if it was ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... don't know yourself what you're jawing about. The lad himself has no wish to leave. Besides, what do we want with him at home? ...
— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al
... leader of the Maximalists, the Anarchist wing of the peasants: "We must do honour to a political party which puts such an act into effect the first day, without jawing about it!" ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... simplest of French doggerel and means, freely translated, that while the fat-headed and the weakly foolish do a great deal of jawing when mistreated by the powerful, the sensible man picks himself up and totes himself far from the neighborhood wherein he is unwelcome and never says a word. Of my twenty congressmen but one offered a translation. That was the dead William H. Crane, of Texas. ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... my dear," cried the old purser loudly, assuming his old sea lingo. "Here, you, sir, how much longer are you going to stand jawing there. Heave ahead and get into a ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... his brother—and better; because in any case he might have tempted a brother to break the law for him. Now there's more innocent blood been shed and a damned, dangerous criminal—mad or sane—is still at large. Most likely more than one. However, it is not much use jawing, I grant you. What we've got to do is to catch ...
— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts
... cried Robert, 'we won't surrender! The sun MUST set in a minute. Here - they're all jawing underneath again. Pity there's no time to get more stones! Here, pour that water down on them. It's no good, of ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... As I was a jawing to the gav yeck divvus, I met on the dron miro Rommany chi: I puch'd yoi whether she com sar mande; And she ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
... be getting," broke in Simmonds, who had taken out his watch and held it up to the light. "It's nearly twelve o'clock, and I don't want to miss the fireworks. Besides, you fellows don't gain anything by all this jawing. You've been at it for an hour, and you're more tangled up now than when you started. My motto with a case of this kind is just to sit quiet and watch it; and pretty soon the rat thinks the coast is clear, and pokes out his head, and you ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson
... "He was jawing, you see," he continued when he came back, Henriot and his wife having kept silence meanwhile, "about direction being of importance in religious ceremonies, West and North symbolising certain powers, or something of the kind, why people turn to the East and all that sort of thing, ...
— Four Weird Tales • Algernon Blackwood
... lounging as carelessly as when he went below. While the skipper was jawing about boats and drifting logs. I asked by signs, from behind, if I hadn't better knock him on the head and drop him quietly overboard. The night was slipping by, and we had to go. It couldn't be put off till next night no more. No. No more. And do ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad
... she saw the stately tower Shining sae clear and bright, Whilk stood aboon the jawing[B] wave, Built ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... stop jawing,' I cried. 'Everything's against me. I haven't had a bit of luck since I came on shore at Leith. What's the harm in a poor devil with an empty stomach picking up some money he finds in a bust-up motor-car? That's all I done, and for that I've been chivvied ...
— The Thirty-nine Steps • John Buchan
... softly called old Robert Stuart from his window, "set them to it, will ye? The lads will be jawing ...
— The Black Feather - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... the Weary Roue and the Good Stockbroker, jawing away as if they really thought monogamy was in the majority in this country, and polygamy was something new! Of course one expects it from the G. S., but you, W. R., really ought to know better—by the way, where is ...
— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby
... the white 'oman what mends and sews, come to the back piazer, and beckoned me to run there. She said ther must be a 'high ole fracas', them was her words, agoin' on in Marster's room, for he was cussin' and swearin', and his granddaughter was jawing back very vicious. Sez I, 'Who'? Sez she, 'His granddaughter; that is Ellice's chile'. Sez I, 'How do you know so much'? Sez she, 'I was darning them liberry curtains, and I couldn't help hearing the wrangle'. Sez I, 'You picked a oncommon handy time to tackle them curtains; they ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... am. Here I've been ever since six o'clock. Didn't want to interrupt the pleasant conversation. If you like to put in half of your watch below jawing with a dear friend, that's not ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... be jawing," said the woman, raising her voice to a terrible scream; "you had better be moving off, my gorgio; hang you for a keen one, sitting there by the fire, and stealing my language before my face. Do you know whom you have to deal with? Do you know that I am dangerous? My name is Herne, and I comes ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
... original pages are available through the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress. For "Lawing and Jawing" see http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hurstonbib:@field(TITLE@od1(LawingandJawing)) For "Forty Yards" see http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hurstonbib:@field(TITLE@od1(FortyYards)) ...
— Three Plays - Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing • Zora Neale Hurston
... feeble, was heard within the little chamber at this period of the conversation, demanding angrily when "that gal would have done jawing;" upon which Phoebe put her finger to her lips, and led Mr. Audley ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... we asked the old codger if we could all come over to his camp and shake hands with the gal—he'd drawed back from us about a mile, he was that skeered to be sociable. So after considerable haggling and jawing, he said we could, and here we come, just about sundown, all of us looking sheepish enough to be carved for mutton, but everlasting determined to take that gal ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... club, when I walked up its lawn, was noisy with the hammering and jawing of its decoration committee. Out in the glass belvedere, like superior goods on display, taking it easy while every one else worked, I saw a group of young matrons of the smart set, Ina Vandeman among them, drinking tea. The open play she was making at Worth ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... not, if everybody is to be as savage as a bear when one comes home. One always trusted to Felix to see sense, if nobody else did; but what with his jawing one about the exhibition, and Wilmet about the tin and every spot on one's clothes, and Alda growling at whatever one does in the parlour, I'm sure I wish I'd ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... God knows what made me treat you to a university-extension lecture. I may not agree with you, but every man's entitled to his own views, and it was dashed poor form for me to start jawing you." ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan
... cried Robert, "we won't surrender! The sun must set in a minute. Here—they're all jawing underneath again. Pity there's no time to get more stones! Here, pour that water down on them. It's no good, of course, but ...
— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit
... the cook's hysterics had become quieter, and the housemaid had time to say what she thought of them, 'don't you begin jawing us. We aren't going to stand it. We know too much. You'll please make an extra special treacle roley for dinner, and we'll ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... whisking about to leave the room; muttering, as he passed behind the large Indian screen at the door, something about 'jawing ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... any longer, the four space cadets suddenly roared with laughter at the sight of the two old space foes jawing at each other. Actually, Connel and Shinny were glad to see each other. And when they saw the boys doubled up with laughter, they couldn't help laughing also. ...
— Danger in Deep Space • Carey Rockwell
... owld enough for to work. So he got a boat an' did purty well an' his wife used to come acrass the hill to the shore to help him wid the catch. But it was far up an' down agin an' she'd get tired wid climbin' the hill an' jawing at Finn on ...
— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr. |
