"Pancake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when I see a plan make The Birds that watch us frown, I come and toss the pancake And ...
— Three Wonder Plays • Lady I. A. Gregory
... you know nothing about them. If you did, you would find they had none of the gilt and gloss you imagine. But the great things they have got in common with all humanity you ignore. It's like—it's like sentimentalising about a pancake because it looked like a buttercup, and all the while not knowing that it was good ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan
... voice from behind the barred door of her cabin. "If you were jumbled in a pool of water, with all your luggage on top of you, I don't think you'd think everything right. Help, man! release me at once, or I'll be drowned and flattened into a pancake!" ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... gone the dog began to fall down again. Of course he fell faster than he went up, and finally landed with a crash exactly on the King's door-step. But so great was the force of the fall and so hard the door-step that the poor dog was flattened out like a pancake, and ...
— The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People • L. Frank Baum
... expecting that our men would recognize us, but they opened fire upon us. I never was as bad scared in all my whole life, and if any poor devil ever prayed with fervency and true piety, I did it on that occasion. I thought, "I am between two fires." I do not think that a flounder or pancake was half as flat as I was that night; yea, it might be called ...
— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins
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