"Josh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was "little Josh," instead of "Sir Joshua" he grew tired in church one day, and sketched upon the nail of his thumb the portrait of the Rev. Mr. Smart who was preaching. After service he ran to a boat-house near, and with ship's paint, upon an old piece ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... dare say not," he replied magisterially. "It's my fate to get into these false positions. Now there was Josh Truscott of Blowinghouse—Justice of the Peace and owned two thousand acres—what you might call a neat little property. He never allowed it to interfere, and yet somehow he carried it off. Do I ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... sir; and when she became Josh Leggett's widow she just took up with me because she said she felt lonesome. She did it with her eyes open as I often tell her, but she has never got over the basement. It does not agree with her constitution, ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... an old woman who had three, sons— Joshua, James and John! Josh got shot, and Jim got drowned, And John got lost and never was found, And that was the end of the woman's three ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough
... marry! Not much. He's gone a-girling at last, old Buck! It's as funny as twins. Have to josh him about it ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris
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