"Hellion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had bitter experiences, and one of them got me at the time I first begun to wear riding pants myself, which must have been about the time you was beginning to bite dents into your silver mug that Aunt Caroline sent. I was a handsome young hellion, I don't mind telling you, and they looked well on me, and when Lysander John urged me to be brave and wear 'em outside I was afraid all the men within a day's ride was going to sneak round to stare at me. My! I was so embarrassed, also with that same feeling you got in your heart this minute ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... that?" inquired Uncle Lance, laughing. "Why, the old hellion! She must have been feeling ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... though he doesn't realize it. It's the mainspring of his religion. There's nothing so mean as fear; and Elias M.'s fear is back of all his meanness, his despotism in business, his tyranny as an employer. I tell you, Boss, if you ever saw a hellion in a cutaway coat, Elias M. Pierce is it, and you're going to smell sulphur when he gets here. Better let him do ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... snarled Jessup. "If that hellion should get away—Say, Buck, why couldn't yuh get ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... shook his head. "That would go fine if you had shot him, Dave, or if Mr. Beaudry here had. But with me it's different. I've been sivinteen years living down a reputation as a hellion. This ain't going to do me any good. Folks will say it was a case of one bad man wiping out another. They'll say I've gone back to being a gunman. I'll be in bad ...
— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine |
