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"Boob" Quotes from Famous Books

... were you? You blanked bone-headed, bean-eating boob!" cried Mr. Peters, frothing over quite unexpectedly and waving his arms in a sudden burst of fury. "Then if you are an American why don't you show a little more enterprise? Why don't you put something over? ...

— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... We see but little of the lady in the 251 pages of this "Fifth Avenue Story"; her character is exposed to us through the experiences of her poor fool husband, who colloquially would be called a simp, by denizens of the Low World a boob. He redeems himself to some extent by sending Madam Sapphira a belated bouquet of cyanide of potassium. On the whole, though characters and phrases in his work might be brought forward to prove the contrary, Mr. Saltus obviously ...

— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

... said; "this is the safest place to work. If ten per cent of the bulls know me I got that much on them, and then some, because any boob can spot any one o' de harness bunch, and I know nearly every fly on the department. They're the guys yuh gotta know, and usually I know something besides their names, too," and again ...

— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... along nice in the west," spoke Allen. "Doing fine. And then this boob gets me to come here—on a sure thing, he says. Do you take me for some kind of a dope?" he demanded, angrily, of those about him. "Do you want me to stand for a ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre

... "Well, the big boob!" Andy gave a snort of anger. "Doesn't he know any better than to pay attention to ...

— Don Strong, Patrol Leader • William Heyliger

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