"Slacker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know a soldier! Rather than feel depressed because our planning has thus far kept him away from the Colors, he's confidently and happily looking forward to the second training camp for officers, sir. Incidentally this will spare him the odium—the odium, sir—of being drafted like a common slacker!" ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris
... one to inspire the most miserable slacker. Somewhere in the upper part of the yard a band was playing Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever." From the windows of the ordnance and other buildings at the lower end of the yard workmen hung forth, waving hats and handkerchiefs, and joining in the shouted well-wishes ...
— The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service • James R. Driscoll
... noise which so startled me I half rose from my seat. "Damned slacker!" she exclaimed, looking fiercely ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore
... ten hours per day, with rests for meals, is the average time spent on the estate. Wages are paid once a month, and a whole holiday follows pay-day, when the stores in town are visited for needful supplies. Other holidays are not infrequent, and between crops the slacker days give ample time for the cultivation of ...
— The Food of the Gods - A Popular Account of Cocoa • Brandon Head
... you are different. Glenn always swore even if he was killed no slacker or no rich guy left at home could ever get you. Maybe you haven't any idea how much it means to us fellows to know there are true and faithful girls. But I'll tell you, Carley, we fellows who went across got to see things strange when we came home. The good old U. S. needs a lot ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... won't—the slacker! I shall just have to go and rout her up, and make her find it. Oh, kafoozalum! It's a ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... as well say that President Wilson is a slacker because he doesn't go off and enlist in some regiment," said Mr. Ellsworth; "or that Papa Joffre is a coward because he doesn't waste his time with a ...
— Tom Slade with the Colors • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... Presently the tide grew slacker, and, half an hour later, the ships were seen to hoist their sails, and soon began to drop slowly up the river. When they approached, James fastened his handkerchief against the trunk of a tree, well ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty
... of slacker," said the Senior Captain bitterly, as with infinite toil he scraped the last of the glaze from the inside of the marmalade pot, "is the sort that doesn't realise ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 10, 1917 • Various
... was steady, as he said, "It's very good of you to show me all this, sir, but the other men will call me a slacker. Hadn't I better ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley |
