"For keeps" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion, You cudn't stop him any more'n a dam 'ud stop the ocean; For when he tackled to a thing 'nd sot his mind plum to it, You bet yer boots he done that thing though it broke the bank to do it! So all us boys uz knowed him best allowed he wuzn't jokin' When on a Sunday ...
— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field
... said Eleseus, and quite simply gave his brother the bit of pencil that was left. "You can have it for keeps," ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun
... sure pop! That name was wished on me by a crowd of Borderland folk, and then His Majesty gave it to me for keeps." ...
— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey
... mean Ike Lasker," Bob replied, quickly. "Yes, I remember how he said he was lying down, waiting for some feeding deer off to windward to work closer, when, all of a sudden, something struck him on the back, and nearly knocked the wind out of him for keeps. He managed to get his knife out, and they had it there, ...
— The Saddle Boys of the Rockies - Lost on Thunder Mountain • James Carson
... generous and brave. What's more, I reckon they'll keep on being commoner, human nature not being a thing that changes much, till we get along to the Day of Judgment round-up—and the goats is cut out and corralled for keeps. ...
— Santa Fe's Partner - Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town • Thomas A. Janvier
... think you've just found them, for keeps. There wasn't a woman cartoonist in the country—or man, either, for that matter—could touch you two years ago. In two more I'll be just Fanny Brandeis' husband, ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... When Laddie went to sleep it was, as the children say, "for keeps." Russ had to punch him with his elbow more than once before ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's • Laura Lee Hope
... at a bird right above the window. It was a nice round one, and he brought it from home to see if he could kill anything. It most killed the minister, and the rock is a little bluggy. Isn't it, Jimmy? He's got it in his pocket for keeps." ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess
... is the devil, old son," he remarked. "Have you killed it for keeps. Bring it here. . . ." Binks laid it obediently at Vane's feet. "It should squeak," he explained to Joan as he picked it up, "mournfully ...
— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
... for keeps," announced Cora. "And I think we'll win. That last gasoline we got is the best we ever had. It gives us more power, and the Chelton is running like a sewing machine, as Jack says. I ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose
... for keeps this time either," said Chester. "To tell the truth, I don't think much of this spy ...
— The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders • Clair W. Hayes
... cried Mrs. Trapes, seizing on the coffee-pot much as if it had been that gentleman's throat, "I'd—I'd like to—bat him one as would quiet him for keeps—I would so!" and she jerked the coffee-pot fiercely, much to the detriment of her snowy tablecloth. "There! now see what I done, but I do get all worked ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol |
