"-ling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the money as soon as Tooke gets it. And so I think I have answered all, and the paper is out, and now I have fetched up my week, and will send you another this day fortnight.—Why, you rogues, two crowns make TENCH-ILL-LING:(16) you are so dull you could never have found it out. ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... do you fidget? You're hurting my shoulder, you troublesome midget! Perhaps it's that hole that you told me about. Why, darling, your sawdust is trick-ker-ling out!! ...
— Pinafore Palace • Various
... the emperor of China. He had a beautiful wife whose name was Si-ling. The emperor and his wife loved their people and always thought of ...
— The Child's World - Third Reader • Hetty Browne, Sarah Withers, W.K. Tate
... my people to a higher state of development, and to unite both this and all other nations within the 'Four Seas' under one common brotherhood. To the several questions put in your note the following are the answers:—Kwoh Sung-Ling has retired from official life, and is now living at home. Yang Ta Jen died a great many years ago. Na Wang's adopted son is doing well, and is the colonel of a regiment, with 500 men under him. The Pa to' Chiaow Bridge, which you destroyed, was rebuilt very soon after you left China, and ...
— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger
... nicknacks should be put in their proper places. She further produced a certain quantity of paper, pencils and other such things, and distributed them among Pao Ch'ai, Ying Ch'un, Pao-y and the rest; and Pao-y also brought out, with extreme care, the string of Ling-ling scented beads, which had been given to him by the Prince of Pei Ching, and handed them, in his turn, to Tai-y as ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... pretty," said Eve. "Coup-ling lilacs with the West reminds me of something that happened once when I was out there ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour |
