"Sprawly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... large and sprawly, it was addressed to "Gethin Owens, mate of the Gwenllian,—Captain Price," and when Tom had departed, with the letter safe in his jacket pocket, the two women set themselves to wait as patiently as they could; but the hours dragged ...
— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine
... he wouldn't, and Umboo clung as tightly as he could, with his sprawly legs, to his mother's broad back as ...
— Umboo, the Elephant • Howard R. Garis
... quite to his liking to read this one, for Joel never wasted any time in preliminaries, but came to the point at once, in big, sprawly letters. ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... feel more honest pride than in any edition of "The Gates Ajar" which it has ever been my fortune to handle. It is a sickly yellow thing, covered with a coarse design of some kind, in which the wings of a particularly sprawly ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various
... crown on her envelopes; she thinks it's vulgar; besides, putting it only on the paper saves expense. This envelope had a great sprawly gold crest, but she didn't seem to disapprove of it. She read on and on, then suddenly glanced up as if she would have said something quickly, to Victoria; she didn't say it, though, for she remembered me. ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson |
