"Toon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... relaxed into the frivolity of unnecessary speech. At last, Tim's next neighbour, Ben Tholoway, began to give emphasis to his speech by nudges, at which Tim, growing rather savage, said, "Let me alooan, will ye? Else I'll ma' ye sing a toon ye wonna like." A good-tempered waggoner's patience has limits, and Tim was not to be ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... the island of Chock-Sing-Toon, and disembarked at a small pier near a village, which looked more like sampans pulled up on the shore than huts or cottages. The children and I rode in chairs, while the gentlemen walked, first over a plain covered with scrubby ...
— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey
... "She's in your care, lad. Gin the weather changes, or threatens to, let the traps go and strike for the toon. You're no' ...
— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine
... free to gang to Algiers,' said Yusuf. 'I fell out with a loon there, one of those Janissaries that gang hectoring aboot as though the world were not gude enough for them, and if I hadna made the best of my way out of the toon, my pow wad be a worricow on the ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge |
