"Stick-in-the-mud" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle. "We wa'n't no hand for strippin' woodland nor even tradin' hosses them first few years. I don' know why 'twas we were so beat out. The best most on us could do was to sag right on to the ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... Valeria asked gaily. "I'm not. Bob was real sweet in his way but he was a real stick-in-the-mud even when ...
— The Last Straw • William J. Smith
... stupid old stick-in-the-mud," cried Tom, "or the fisherman will catch you!" And that was true, for Tom felt some one above beginning to haul up ...
— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley
... this charming rosebud of a girl going to marry Eustace Medlicott—insufferable, conceited prig, I remember him at Oxford," the cousin was musing to himself. "Lord Carford is an old stick-in-the-mud, or he would have prevented that. She is his own niece, and one can see by her frock that the poor child ...
— The Point of View • Elinor Glyn
... stick-in-the-mud. Don't sit there, doubled up like a government mule," he laughed. (The army lingo still showed itself once in a while in Fred's speech.) "Help me get this room ready or I'll whale you with this," and he waved one end of a trace over his head. "If the fellows are coming they'll be here ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith
... Stick-in-the-mud! [He has arrived without appearance of design beneath the tree where the CAT is lying, and asks rapidly, under breath.] ...
— Chantecler - Play in Four Acts • Edmond Rostand |
