"Goer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Now your picnic-goer is a muff-an egregious, gregarious muff, and a glutton. Moreover, a nobody who, if he be male wears, in nine cases in ten, a red necktie and a linen duster to his heel; if she be female hath soiled hose to her calf, and in her face a ...
— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile
... of any persons, who shewed the least joy; except three malefactors, who were to be executed on the Monday following, and one old man, a constant church-goer, who being at the point of death, expressed some ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IV: - Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church, Volume II • Jonathan Swift
... the plays that divert and misinform the modern theatre-goer turn on the pivot of a love-affair, not always pure, but generally simple! And how many of those that are imported from France proceed upon the theory that the Seventh is the only Commandment, and that the principal attraction of life lies in the opportunity of breaking it! The matinee-girl ...
— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke
... house of a sick person, and opens up a most interesting chapter of Cherokee beliefs. The witch is supposed to go about chiefly under cover of darkness, and hence is called s[^u][n]n[^a][']y[)i] ed[^a][']h[)i], "the night goer." This is the term in common use; but there are a number of formulistic expressions to designate a witch, one of which, u[']ya igawa[']st[)i], occurs in the body of the formula and may be rendered "the imprecator," i.e., the sayer of evil things or curses. ...
— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney
... Woodbury, a man of blameless life, but who had lived sixty-five years without religion. The other was my uncle by marriage, twenty years my senior, a close personal friend and familiarly called "Dave." I had been in the habit of spending many of my Sundays with him, as he was a non-church goer, companionable, genuine and open-hearted as the day. It was evident that he had found something that he wanted to share with his friends, and while I made light of it at the time, his testimony made a ...
— Out of the Fog • C. K. Ober
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