"Quip" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so glum, Dr. Christobal?" she demanded. "Has the captain's quip given you a shock, or is it that you ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... at times overpowering. His vocabulary overcame him often, bore him away from his thought and landed him in some swamp out of which he was wont to extricate himself, to the great delight of the semi-educated reader by some quip or quirk equally meretricious and mephitic. Thus would he, metaphorically, throw filth at himself. He felt all the time that he was pursuing the best course, bending things he despised and loathed to better ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... that quip, too, and yet the son of this mischievous enemy of progress was a particularly fine, bright boy, whom we all liked, and whose father, when I saw him, astonished me, for he was a kindly man and could laugh as cheerfully ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... ship in which we could sail to the harbor of heaven;" and she would hear that Queen Elizabeth, complaining of the name for an unlucky one, had re-christened her The Dainty, not without some by-quip, perhaps, at the character of her most dainty captain, Richard Hawkins, the complete seaman and Euphuist afloat, ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley |
