"Bloke" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... different sort of salute from that to which a Commander-in-Chief landing on duty is entitled by regulation. Quite a shower of shell fell all about us, the Turks having spotted there was some sort of "bloke" on the Rattlesnake. We went round a bit of the line, and found all well, the men in great heart and, amidst a constant crackle of musketry, looking as if they liked it. Birdie himself is still a little shaken by his wound of yesterday. He had a close ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... I gets a tanner. But, bless you, I ain't a brigade bloke. I say, though, where's t'other flat; ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... Trouble—I'm a busy bloke— I am the test of Courage—and of Class— I bind the coward to a bitter yoke, I drive the craven from the crowning pass; Weaklings I crush before they come to fame; But as the red star guides across the night, I train the stalwart for a better ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris
... what kind of a bloke this touted superman is, Stanton thought. Well, I can't say I ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... One, his face is ashen and his knees knock as he runs (A curious phenomenon quite rare in Number Ones); But on he rushed until he saw the tall brass-hatted Bloke, And, nervously saluting, incoherently he spoke:— "Boy Simpkins (Second Class, too!), I'm afraid that you must know, Sir, Had the nerve to mutter 'Blast you!' to a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 1, 1919 • Various
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