"Drop dead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sold him, I would have packed up and gone away without working the town. A man on the road, you know, boys, even if he doesn't do business with them, should form the acquaintance of all the men in the town who handle his line. The old customer may drop dead, sell out, or go broke, and it is always well to have somebody else in line. Of course there are justifiable exceptions to this rule, but in general I would say: 'Know as many as you can who handle ...
— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson
... lying upon his narrow bed in the little loft, to yield some moments before sleeping to his idle dreams of vengeance—to plan exquisite punishments and impossible retaliations. In imagination he had so often seen Fletcher drop dead before him, had so often struck the man down with his own hand, that there were hours when he almost believed the deed to have been done—when something like madness gripped him, and his hallucinations took the shape and colour of life itself. At such ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... suddenly drop dead While the blue air yet trembled with its song, So snapped at once that music's golden thread, Struck by a nameless fear that leapt along 540 From heart to heart, and like a shadow spread With instantaneous shiver through the throng, So that some glanced behind, as half ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... father, what despair is this? [Sir Edward buries his face in his hands.] If it is fear of poverty, do not think of me, I will marry this man if I drop dead ...
— Our American Cousin • Tom Taylor
... drop dead if a tertiary as much as looked at you. The oracle is only a hundred and seventy; and you'll find it ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw
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