"Angleworm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... priest of his own faith, "I wot that he whom thou blesseth is blessed, and whom thou curseth is cursed." He evidently believed that Balaam carried the celestial thunderbolts concealed about his person—that when he turned them loose those on whom they alighted frizzled up like a fat angleworm on a sea-coal fire. The good man said he would see what could be done to help Balak ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... Wurpz says. "In passin' I saw an angleworm three times the size of a firehose, and a beetle big ...
— Operation Earthworm • Joe Archibald
... remedies that are without effect or that do not produce the effects credited to them. I am relying on high therapeutical authority for this statement. Now when the sick man is told by his own physician to discard angleworm poultices, and herbs plucked in the dark of the moon, on which he had formerly relied, it is any wonder that he has ended by being suspicious also of calomel and ipecac, with which they were formerly classed? And when the man who believed that ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... me," said the grocery man as he moved the box of raisins out of reach. "You never will amount to anything unless you stick to one trade or profession. A rolling hen never catches the early angleworm." ...
— The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy - Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 • George W. Peck
... through the ports," Wurpz says. "In passin' I saw an angleworm three times the size of a firehose, and a beetle big enough ...
— Operation Earthworm • Joe Archibald |
