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More "Lopsided" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fasten the appendage to the wasp, I used a little oxgall ...; gum or more sticky substances would not do, as it impedes the use of the wings in flight. Presently the operation was complete, and, to my surprise, the wasp, after one or two ineffectual efforts, flew in rather lopsided fashion to the window. It then buzzed about for at least a quarter of an hour, eventually flying out at the top ... it was vigorous when it flew away."—Extract from an ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Nov. 1, 1890 • Various
... dreaming all afternoon on the porch, had gotten up reluctantly as they passed and followed them. He had a slow, lopsided gait, and his tongue dangled from the side of his mouth. It was evidently a sacrifice for him to accompany ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... might do. He also is firm, though his manner is mild, so the situation would have been even more "amusing" for the family on the side lines, had he been present. Owing to the placing of the house, we are doomed to have a lopsided garden whatever we do, but we want it to look wayward rather than eccentric. After a battle fought over nearly every inch of the ground the lady was victorious, for Will said to me as he watched her motor ...
— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane
... cried Grace, running ahead to get the effect of the absurd lopsided figure whose eyes glared and went out alternately. "I wish the real Miss L. could see herself now. She would know exactly what she looks like when she glares at ...
— Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School - The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls • Jessie Graham Flower
... onny ugly and lopsided, and everyone laughs at me 'ceptin' you, and I've no one or—or ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
... Chinamen begin. Lights twinkle. Clean-looking interiors and carefully washed store windows. Roofs have been hammered back in place, stairways nailed together again. The sagging walls and lopsided cottages have taken a new lease on life. Another of the innumerable little business districts that dot the city has fought its ...
— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht
... yes, and then we asked him to drink old Clausewitz's health, as a brother-tactician, in milk-punch and Worcester sauce, and so on. We had to help him a little there. He bites. There wasn't much else that time; but, you know, the War Office is severe on ragging these days.' Bobby stopped with a lopsided smile. ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... that profane culte de laideur, that 'love of the lopsided,' they have recovered from the foul receptacles ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... Asteroid 57GM. This place didn't have anything excepting a lonely shack with paper-thin walls made of special heat-insulating material. There wasn't a blade of grass; not a puff of wind; no soil for violets; not even a symmetrical shape, it was lopsided like a beaten-up baseball. Or at least that was what I thought until something happened to ...
— The Minus Woman • Russell Robert Winterbotham
... noticed that attraction is no lopsided affair; that it is mutual; that, while the larger body attracts the less, the less also attracts and moves the larger in proportion; and that, indeed, every body and every particle attracts every other, far as well as near, to the utmost ...
— Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects • John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness
... this time in its full lopsided monstrosity, and turned to Dick, clutching him and hiding her eyes ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming
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