"Kill-joy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... limed, My bird is limed, With the gum of the forest. We make a great circuit, 5 Outskirting the feast. You shall feast on king's bounty: No fear of the tabu, all's free. Free! and By whom? Free by the word of the king. 10 Then a free rein to mirth! Banish the kill-joy Who eats the king's dainties! Feast then till replete With the good ...
— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson
... a horrid little man, a Mr. Clay, who has come all the way from England to see Mr. Ferrars, and begged to be allowed to attach himself to our party. A perfect little kill-joy he is, so prim, so proper and precise, that one is tempted to believe he must have been born a grown-up, and so has had no ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant |
