"Swing over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sir," he answered, frankly. "I don't believe that I can swing over the job. I give you my word on the book that I never raised hand against Mr. Sholto. It was that little hell-hound Tonga who shot one of his cursed darts into him. I had no part in it, sir. I was as grieved as if it had been my blood-relation. I welted the little devil with ...
— The Sign of the Four • Arthur Conan Doyle
... out in Mr. Man's barn for his white whiskers, and he put some that wasn't so long on the edges of his overcoat and boot tops and around an old hat he had. Then he borrowed a big sack he found out there, too, and fixed it up to swing over his back, just as he had seen Santa Claus do in the pictures. He had a lot of nice things to take along. Three tender young chickens he'd borrowed from Mr. Man, for one thing, and then he bought some new neckties for the Hollow Tree folks all around, and a big, striped candy ...
— How Mr. Rabbit Lost his Tail • Albert Bigelow Paine
... right in the place where I wanted 'em to be married—right in our parlor, in front of the picter of Grant, and not fur back of the hangin' lamp, but fur enough back so's to allow of a lovely bell of white roses and lilies to swing over ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley
... not leaped on to the window-sill, and without an instant's hesitation let myself swing over, I could not have kept my senses ...
— The House by the Lock • C. N. Williamson
... gave me a scare when I saw you swing over the edge of the car, but it was no use for me to try and slow up then, besides I had time to make up, and the engineer can't stop for his best friend then. But I must say ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt |
