"Messenger boy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as a messenger boy—but don't hurry about him leaving school. He'd best stay until midsummer, then he'll ...
— Good Luck • L. T. Meade
... doubtful if they would ever have got past the park gates except for the warning whistle of a hurrying messenger boy, ...
— Old Valentines - A Love Story • Munson Aldrich Havens
... a messenger boy brought a telegram for Danvers, who excused himself to read and answer it. As he returned the opening bars of Leonora's florid song sounded, and under cover of the music the doctor whispered to O'Dwyer: "You did ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... remembered, too, that he had glanced back from the doorway and caught her still looking after him; and that he had smiled, and she had smiled swiftly in return and had then turned away abruptly to her work. To her work? Starr remembered now that she had turned and spoken to a sulky-faced messenger boy who was sitting slumped down on the curve of his back with his tightly buttoned tunic folded up to his armpits so that his hands could burrow to the very bottom of his pockets. He had looked up, muttered something, reluctantly removed himself from the chair, and started ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... our bookman was at the shop betimes. Yes! his wire had arrived; Upton was his at last! Should the dealer send it for him by carrier? Carrier, forsooth! As well entrust the Koh-i-noor to a messenger boy. Of course it was the same copy that our friend had missed previously, the owner having sold his books ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan |
