"Toller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with his regrettably early end. Apart from his poems he left no literary remains, except a few letters too hideously ungrammatical for publication. The sole materials for a biography lay in the memory of Toller, who by a stroke of luck happened to have ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 28th, 1920 • Various
... breakfast. Perfectly good temper both of us. Then she said, 'Those houses in King's Close are going to be eighty pounds a year; and, what do you think, Mrs. Toller is going to take one!' Immediately I was riled. Why should I get riled because she says that Mrs. Toller is going to take a house for eighty pounds a year? I just rustled the newspaper. Why on earth couldn't I say, 'Good lord, ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... the other man, whose name was Toller, dashed to the door. On the pavement there was a confused scramble. Blows were struck indiscriminately. Two policemen appeared. One was laid hors de combat by a kick on the knee-cap from Toller. ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... edible fungi may be glad to take shares in a fungus plantation about to be started in the neighbourhood of Toller ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 25th, 1920 • Various
... Rev. Thomas Toller, an eminent dissenting minister, (joint preacher with the celebrated Dr. James Fordyce, at Monkwell-street,) resided many years in the Lower-street, Islington. One day, when he got into the stage to come to London, he met with two ladies of his acquaintance, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 266, July 28, 1827 • Various |
