"Mislay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and then you will make me some more in order not to get the books. No, I will let you read my stupid books in manuscript and help me that way. If you like to make me a kettle- holder, you may, for I only have one just now, and I like to have two because I always mislay one; but I won't have people working their fingers out to ...
— The Samuel Butler Collection - at Saint John's College Cambridge • Henry Festing Jones
... black boy," said he, "an' I was wantin' my boss to take me on a trip down into Egypt, I wouldn't call it California. If I knew anything 'bout a four-mile stake race, I'd try to mislay the name of it. If I had been ridin' a big, hammer-headed hoss, I don't think I'd mention him except in my prayers. If I was goin' after corn, I ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan |
