"Slobber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dream the mother asked the girl if she could imagine what the camel signified in the dream, and she immediately replied: "Papa, because he has to drag along and worry himself like a camel. You know, Mamma, when he wants to slobber you it is as if he said to you in camel talk, 'Please play with me. I will marry you; I won't let you go away.' The rocks on which you are were steep, the path was quite clear, but the railing was very dirty and there was a deep abyss, and ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer
... a song, how little miss Was kiss'd and slobber'd by a lad: And how, when master went to p—, Miss came, and ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift
... or timidly orthodox English literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, all eight had imbibed the same dull gentlemanly tradition of behavior; essentially boyish, unimaginative—with neither keen swords nor art in it, a tradition apt to slobber into sentiment at a crisis and make a great virtue of a simple duty rather clumsily done. None of these eight had made any real experiments with life, they had lived in blinkers, they had been passed from nurse to governess, from governess to preparatory school, from Eton to Oxford, from Oxford to ...
— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells
... continual fear), of a grass-green colour from head to foot, with a hunting-horn dangling at his side instead of a sword, and his hat and feather sticking over one eye, or hanging on the back of his head, as he happened to toss it on. He used to loll on the necks of his favourite courtiers, and slobber their faces, and kiss and pinch their cheeks; and the greatest favourite he ever had, used to sign himself in his letters to his royal master, His Majesty's 'dog and slave,' and used to address his majesty as 'his Sowship.' ...
— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens
... shouted, with the slobber of excitement on his lips and beard. "Now I go to make Armenians pay for this! Let the shapkali,* too, avoid me! Ya Ali, ya Mahoma, Alahu!" (Oh, Ali, oh, Mahomet, ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy
... advance of their fellow-townsmen in cleanliness and civilisation. Yet, in spite of this, some of the modes in which they delight to honour even the passing stranger are far from acceptable. Among the least objectionable of these is the encouragement of their children to seize and slobber over his hands, the only manner of avoiding which is to keep them thrust deeply into his pockets—an odious custom elsewhere, but here indispensable. Before bidding a last farewell to the house of my entertainer, ...
— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot
... no connection with the animal whose fur has been used for some centuries for expensive hats. It comes from Old Fr. baviere, a child's bib, now replaced by bavette, from baver, to slobber. ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley
... bull, Even when the dogs are tearing at his gullet, Turns no eye up for pity. I myself, Crippled and hunched and twisted as I am, Would make a brave fend to stand up to you Until you swallowed your words, if you should slobber Your pity over me. A bull! Nay, man, You're nothing but a bear with a sore head. A bee has stung you—you who've lived on honey. Sawdust, forsooth! You've had the sweet of life: ...
— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh) |
