"Slugger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The "Boss" was what they called a "bulldozer." If a man differed with him he tried to talk or drink him down; if it was an enemy and he became too disputatious, he would knock him out with his fist. In this way he had acquired a reputation as a "slugger," that counted for much in such an assemblage, and he confided to me one evening that it was the easiest way to "stop talk," and that if he "laid down," the opposition would walk off with all his "people." He was "Boss" because he was the boss slugger, the best executive, the best drinker ...
— As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home • Anonymous
... to compare ze Hindoo harem wiz ze American feest slugger?" cried the count, with ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... "Champion Slugger," in trunks of bright green, The "Big Fellow" at Eight fifty-two might be seen: Like a truculent Titan, blind, baffled, and blown, At Ten ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 17, 1892 • Various |
