"Rubbish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... halfpenny papers, and yet how little was ever done to get to the bottom of the business! He came down in a tremendous vol-plane from an unknown height. He never got off his machine and died in his pilot's seat. Died of what? 'Heart disease,' said the doctors. Rubbish! Hay Connor's heart was as sound as mine is. What did Venables say? Venables was the only man who was at his side when he died. He said that he was shivering and looked like a man who had been badly scared. 'Died of fright,' said Venables, but could not imagine what he was frightened ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle
... "Rubbish!" exclaimed Captain Stride, smiting the table with his fist. "We mustn't parley with him, but heave him overboard at once! I said so to my missus this very ...
— Charlie to the Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne
... up her ears. 'What's this? I'm out of this. Oh, that old rubbish! She will have it you and Francis should have married. My dear Sophia, Rose could have married anybody if she'd wanted to. You'll admit that? Yes? Then can't you see'—she tapped Sophia's knee—'then can't you see that Rose didn't ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... take place, partly, it was supposed, because of a violent snow-storm that came on, and partly through the failure of the mines. Scarcely had the Swedish troops withdrawn in the evening, when the besieged made a sortie, in which the miners cleared the moat of the rubbish that encumbered it, and picked up a considerable number of cannon-balls, which they carried into the town ...
— The Young Carpenters of Freiberg - A Tale of the Thirty Years' War • Anonymous
... about church matters—decorations and anthems and other rubbish. What they want is less of the church and more ...
— Cecilia de Noel • Lanoe Falconer
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