"Fast one" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mark Powers giving the orders. Then the Privateer, another fast one, but going sluggishly now because of a stove-in seine-boat wallowing astern. Then the North Wind, with her decks swept clear of everything but her house and hatches. Seine-boat, ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
... runs, by Baynes. Baynes, though abstaining from runs himself, helped Pringle to add three to the score, all in singles, and was then yorked by the slow man, who meanly and treacherously sent down, without the slightest warning, a very fast one on the leg stump. Then Reece came in for the last wicket, and the rot stopped. Reece always went in last for the School, and the School in consequence always felt that there were possibilities to the very end ...
— A Prefect's Uncle • P. G. Wodehouse
... opening in the floor of the great chamber. It had been closed by a trap-door of stone, but the door was open. Creeping along this shaft, or passage, for some ten paces, we came at length to a well, seven cubits in depth. Making fast one end of the rope that I had brought about my body and the other to a ring in the rock, I was lowered, holding the lamp in my hand, till I stood in the last resting-place of the Divine Menkau-ra. Then the ...
— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard
... your horse is a fast one; we shall be late," she remarked, as I took my place by her side. "Here is a pin, Mr. Flutter; you can ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
... did not consider the pace a very fast one, but being a cheerful fellow by nature, he simply expressed his dissatisfaction ...
— The House of the Whispering Pines • Anna Katharine Green |
