"Hank" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... visit my fellow man with violence only with thy favor and in thy name. Thou knowest that when I laid Jim Thompson an' Si Marcum in thar graves it was by thy aid. Thou knowest how I disembowelled with my trusty knife the miserable sinner Hank Smith." Here the parson drew out his knife and began honing it on the leg of his boot. "An' hyeh's another who meddles with thy servant and profanes thy day. I know this hyeh Jeb Mullins is offensive in thy sight an' fergive me, O Lawd, but I'm a-goin' to cut his gizzard plum' out, an' O Lawd—" ...
— In Happy Valley • John Fox
... took me back this time—the new sign and getting Hank started. Henry is now working ten hours a day out to the packinghouse. After a year of that, he'll be taken into the office and his hours will be cut down to eight. Eight hours a day will seem like sinful idleness to Henry ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... it!" assented the Captain. "Worked on his shirt and hank'cher, so fine as ever was. Well, Jewel Bright, when I seed all this, I says, 'January,' says I, 'here's Christian corpses, and they must have Christian burial!' I says. So I brought 'em all up to the house, and laid 'em comfortable; and then I gave you a good drink of warm milk (you'd been ...
— Captain January • Laura E. Richards
... in our eyes. As the water shoaled to four feet, his brow contracted and his motions were quickened; when it became three feet, he hurled the lead into the water, as the gambler dashes down his last dice; and at last, as we grazed on the tail of a hank, it was almost with a shriek that he yelled out, 'Doo foots!' But our hour had not yet come; and as the water deepened to beyond the four yards that formed the extent of his line, he assumed his former dignified ease, and leisurely made ...
— Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Volume XVII., No 423, New Series. February 7th, 1852 • Various
... their adventure. The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger went to the marble stables behind the Royal Palace, where they lived while at home, and they too kept the secret, even refusing to tell the Wooden Sawhorse, and Hank the Mule, and the Yellow Hen, and the Pink Kitten ...
— The Magic of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... out to suppah—well, we scrambled to de table, An' I 'd lak to tell you 'bout it—what we had—but I ain't able, Mention jes' a few things, dough I know I had n't orter, Fu' I know 't will staht a hank'rin' an' yo' mouf 'll 'mence to worter. We had wheat bread white ez cotton an' a egg pone jes like gol', Hog jole, bilin' hot an' steamin' roasted shoat an' ham sliced cold— Look out! What's de mattah wif you? Don't be fallin' on de flo'; Ef it 's go'n' to 'fect you dat ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar |
