"Man friday" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the part of Robinson Crusoe, and it gave him a little shock to hear Quonab called his man Friday. ...
— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton
... day precisely like another—the whole thing of it. We may picture him as a humid duck-legged little man, most terribly homesick, most tremendously lonely, most distressingly alien. We may go further and picture him as a sort of combination of Job with his afflictions, Robinson Crusoe with no man Friday to cheer him in his solitude, and Peter the Hermit with no dream of a crusade to uplift him. In these four years his hair had turned almost white, yet he ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... not content with this discovery; but having now more courage, and consequently more curiosity, I took my man Friday with me, giving him the sword in his hand, with the bow and arrows at his back, which I found he could use very dexterously, making him carry one gun for me, and I two for myself, and away we marched to the place where these creatures ...
— The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites • Eva March Tappan
... peculiar isolation experienced by the Alpine traveller, it may be conjectured, that, when the boy, Auguste, drew my bridle through his arm, I felt very much as Robinson Crusoe did when he was joined by his man Friday. Auguste and I soon became friends. He was a large, round-faced, mild-eyed youth, who, the instant the excitement of securing his employment was past, subsided into a soft, even pace like that of a dog. Now and then, too, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various
... good-will that astonished even ourselves. In preparing our new homes we, and all the other settlers of this infant colony as well, enjoyed the same kind of pleasure that Robinson Crusoe must have done when he and his man Friday set up house for themselves in the island of ...
— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables
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