"Spooney" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... psychologists to estimate precisely the hold love has on a man who is diagnosed, in the language of the vulgar child Sally, as "spooney." Probably no patient has ever succeeded in doing this himself. It is quite another matter when the eruption has broken out, when the crater is vomiting flames and the lava is pouring down on the little homesteads at the mountain's base, that may stand in the metaphor for all that ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... sez in a fraxious axent, "How queer it is that two such smart young folks can look and act so spooney, but thank heaven! it won't last. It won't be long before Royal will be willin' to pass the time o' day with ...
— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley
... spooney; you'd be an ornament to the gun-room, you would; but where's the 'young lady' who is so infernal delicate—where is ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest |
