"Nosey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sake think I'm nosey," besought Abby Daggett almost tearfully. "You know I ain't that kind; but I don't see how folks is going to help being interested in a sweet pretty girl like Miss Orr, and her coming so unexpected. And you know there's them that'll invent things that ain't ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... committee of O. P.'s whose treasonable exploits at Covent Garden you all recollect, and all of whom would have been hung from the chandeliers at that time, but for the mistaken lenity of Government. At a given signal, a well-known O. P. was to cry out from the gallery, "Nosey! Music!" whereupon all the O. P.'s were to produce from their inside pockets a long pair of shears, edged with felt, to prevent their making any noise, manufactured expressly by a wretch at Birmingham, one of Mr. Brougham's evidences, and now in custody. With these they were to cut off the heads ...
— Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum • James and Horace Smith
... by Sir Isaac's mother, and the sight of her sturdy, swarthy, and rather dignified presence flashed the thought into Mr. Brumley's mind that Sir Isaac's father must have been a very blond and very nosey person indeed. She was homely and practical and contributed very usefully to a conversation that remained a trifle fragmentary and faintly uncomfortable ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... never took a pinch, Nosey! the pleasure thence which flows? Knows he the titillating joy Which ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... "Nosey, from nasus—truly, it is a fair epithet; and it remindeth me that my nose—suffered in the fall which I received just now. Yet I cannot ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat |
