"Roarer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dot, old Roarer," exclaimed Otto Relstaub, stepping forward in much excitement; "if you does, den you won't be old Roarer not any more, ...
— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis
... surrounded by many objects, which he strikes to cause thunder. Rattles made of gourds are used for the same purpose with some tribes; or down, etc., may be used in imitation of clouds, and water spurted about to represent rain. In many instances a secret ceremonial object is used,—a bull roarer in the rain making ceremonies. This is an object which, when whirled about, makes a sound in imitation of thunder. It represents a sort of thunder deity and so is associated with rainfall. It is held very sacred, being ...
— The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races - An Interpretation • Sanger Brown, II
... BOY, "a species of roarer; one who in some way drew a man into a snare, to cheat or ...
— The Poetaster - Or, His Arraignment • Ben Jonson
... draughts of blood. They met with twenty or thirty other darkened and unclean people, all dressed in dingy colours that would not show the dirt, in a little brick-built chapel equipped with a spavined roarer of a harmonium, and there solaced their minds on the thought that all that was fair and free in life, all that struggled, all that planned and made, all pride and beauty and honour, all fine and enjoyable things, were irrevocably ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... ship's company slep' on deck as usual—officers as well—all but the cap'n, who had gone ashore. It was a tremendous hot night, an' a good deal darker than usual. There was one man in the ship named Wilson; but we called him Bob Roarer, because of a habit he had of speakin' an' sometimes roarin' in his sleep. Bob lay between me an' the purser that night, an' we slep' on all right till it was getting pretty late, though there was two or three ...
— Fighting the Flames • R.M. Ballantyne |
