"Fash" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moistening her red under lip in a pondering moment—"not exactly in fash'nable society. Of course we have our friends. But gentlemen from the East that I've met have always been so surprised when I told them that I didn't go out in the most fash'nable circles. They always thought any one with money could get right in ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... gettin' over the hills to the east, an', as it strikes him, he's shore a fash'nable lookin' Injun. He ain't got nothin' on but a war-bunnit an' a coat of paint. The rest of his trousseau he confines to his Winchester an' belt. He's on his war- pony, an' the bronco's stripped as bare as this Black Dog is; not a strap from muzzle to tail. This bridegroom ...
— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis
... "What a girl you are! You needn't fash yourself about my feelings for Miss Child. All I want is to ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... "He winna fash ye ony more," said he. "Tat's a fine way of mine, when I can get behint a mon. I've killt mony a stot like it, shoost t' keep in the way of it." And he stabbed the air, twisted his wrist, and ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... "Never fash yoursel' aboot the landleddy!" said the sage chief of the Craig Fernie waiters. "Your purse speaks for you, my lassie. Pet it up!" cried Mr. Bishopriggs, waving temptation away from him with the duster. "In wi' it into yer pocket! Sae ...
— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins
... fash yo'sel'! She may e'en just ha' gone her ways over to Banff, or some gait, and may be back sune. I'll gae see if they ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... motion, To pacify the conquering banner, By sending homage in, and tribute. With both the homage and its manner They charged the monkey, as a glib brute; And, lest the chap should too much chatter, In black on white they wrote the matter. Nought but the tribute served to fash, As that must needs be paid in cash. A prince, who chanced a mine to own, At last, obliged them with a loan. The mule and ass, to bear the treasure, Their service tender'd, full of pleasure; And then the caravan was ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... at him for a moment, and then roared out—"Weel, gudeman, your commencement is pertinent and true enough; and though we be 'the greatest of mortals,' as ye style us, dinna fash yoursel' about our grandeur, but go on, as if we were nae better nor wiser than your ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... "Never fash your beard, Mr. Bide-the-Bent," replied Girder; "ane canna get their breath out here between wives and ministers. I ken best how to turn my ain cake. Jean, serve up the dinner, and nae mair ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... easy to perceive, that, if our friend Asirvadam were not one of the "Young Bengal" lights who do not fash themselves with trifles, his orthodox sensibilities would be subjected to so many and gross affronts from the indiscriminate contacts of a mixed community, that he would shortly be compelled to take refuge in one of those Arcadias of the triple cord, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... to mean more than this and to have in view the "vesture of the colour of the sun" attributed by the Upanishads to the spiritual man; that vesture which a disciple has thus described: "The Lord shall change our vile body, that it may be fash toned like unto his glorious body"; perhaps "body of radiance" would better ...
— The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali • Charles Johnston
... letter, an' he said,—'If that was a' the lo'e that Jeanie Burns had for him, to prefer an auld wife's comfort, wha was naething to her, to her betrothed husband, she might bide awa' as lang as she pleased; he would never fash himsel' to mak' screed o' a ...
— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... Garlands were much interested and excited by the tidings, which brought them so close to great events that, practically speaking, they themselves became members of the fash'nable set: and Mrs. Garland publicly thanked God that she was not as other women were, lazying and keeping back their gentlemen's shirts till Saturday night, or worse. Laid away tidy in the second bureau drawer, her shirts were. The doctor himself seemed not a little enlivened by the ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... was a quiet child, And gave my teachers little fash, But as I grew I grew more wild, And hasty as the ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various
... he wint. At sharp five o'clock th' rivolution begun. Th' sthreets was dinsely packed with busy journalists, polis, sojers, an' fash'nably dhressed ladies who come down fr'm th' Chang's All Easy in motocycles. There was gr-reat excitement as Jools come to th' windy an' pinned a copy iv his vallyable journal on th' sill, accompanied be a thrusty liftnant wavin' a statement iv th' circulation iv th' Anti-Jew. Jools at this ...
— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne
... 'Never ye fash yer heid aboot that. Ye can lippen (trust) that to him, for it's his ain business. He'll see 'at ye're a' richt. Dinna ye think 'at he'll ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... reassuringly at Betty as she hurried breathlessly past him. "Dinna fash yersel', Mistress," he called. ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... after sewing the edges of sails together, one over the other, by stitching through the centre of the seam. Also, the fash left at the junction of the moulds when ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... "But dinna fash yersel' about yon hizzie ony mair, me young leddy. She'll na be permitted to trouble ye," concluded ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... next!" exclaimed Salisbury. "Who do you think would fash themselves about such a ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... my psalms, they oft are set On a path the Fiend must pave them; Evermore, with fash and fret, In God's ...
— A Celtic Psaltery • Alfred Perceval Graves
... thee, the bluid o' Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to John o' Grots, The king o' drinks, as I conceive it, Talisker, Isla, or Glenlivet! For after years wi' a pockmantie Frae Zanzibar to Alicante, In mony a fash an' sair affliction I gie 't as my sincere conviction— Of a' their foreign tricks an' pliskies, I maist abominate their whiskies. Nae doot, themsel's, they ken it weel, An' wi' a hash o' leemon peel, An' ...
— The World's Best Poetry — Volume 10 • Various |
