"Garbage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ain't," Mrs. Snawdor continued. "I never seen nothin' more pathetical than that there boy when he was no more than three years old, a-tryin' to feed hisself outer the garbage can, an' her a comin an' a goin' in the alley all these years with her nose in the air, too ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... which even so ought to set up no disturbance. (15) But for himself, it was clear, he was prepared at all points and invulnerable. He found less difficulty in abstaining from beauty's fairest and fullest bloom than many others from weeds and garbage. To sum up: (16) with regard to eating and drinking and these other temptations of the sense, the equipment of his soul made him independent; he could boast honestly that in his moderate fashion (17) his pleasures were no less than theirs who take such ...
— The Memorabilia - Recollections of Socrates • Xenophon
... with the knife," The battener upon garbage, I - Dear Heaven, with such a rancid life, Were it ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson
... car and drove to Whitechapel. At the end of a street, whose gutters were full of vegetable garbage I stopped, and, descending, beckoned ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 6, 1917 • Various
... how truly magnificent! Was there enough ice? When I mangled garbage there I got one whole lump—nearly as big as a walnut. What had Markyn to ...
— Soldiers Three • Rudyard Kipling
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