"Gargoyle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Barnes. Why, a mother-in-law looks to me like something in petticoats that comes creeping up with a catlike tread, carrying in one hand a net and in the other a bale-hook. I can't sit out two dances with a debutante before this nightmare is looking over my shoulder, grinning like a gargoyle and counting up the number of millions you are ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... in to Marraine," she choked. "Gargoyle, my dear," she whispered, "is what she meant—gargoyle. ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... me with a look that seemed to have about it all the fragrance of all the lilac-blossoms in the world, mixed with all the piety of all our race's children and the wantonness of all old heathen dreams. It is like Socrates, that head; and like a gargoyle on the ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... dead cheetah was laid at Jill's feet, a huge bull dog, with a face like a gargoyle to be seen on the Western transept of Notre-Dame, and a chest like a steel safe, supported on legs which had given way under the weight, walked across from Sir John Wetherbourne, Bart., of Bourne Manor, and other delectable ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest
... for some modern master, a chance to picture for generations to come an aspect of a mighty age, an age that may some day be deemed but a grotesque and anomalistic survival of a more ancient logic; a gargoyle carved out of chaos, that bears on its features a resemblance to the ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
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