"Davy jones" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... You try going over that dam once and see if your insides-out don't get pretty well mixed up. I got a terrific thump on the back of the head when the boat turned turtle, and if I hadn't had a leg under the seat, I'd be in Davy Jones' locker right now. When I came to I didn't know whether I was me or the boat. I had gallons of water in me and—and I think I swallowed a worm or two; the bait can got tipped over—and all the worms ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart
... struck work like. Beg pardon, sir; but seeing as some on us may be gone to Davy Jones's locker 'fore night—not meaning you, o' course, but him—wouldn't it be handsome-like to go and make friends, and offer him ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn
... We didn't reach Davy Jones's locker that time, did we? Though why we didn't, an' why we're here, is more'n I ...
— The Scarecrow of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... about to grow angry, I went up to the saloon for it. On my way to the table I nearly tumbled over a prostrate man, whom I had noticed the night before as conspicuous for his audacious and hardy bearing. "I guess we're going to Davy Jones," he said; "I've been saying my prayers all night—little good, I guess. I've been a sinner too long. I've seen many a"—a groan followed. I looked at the reckless speaker. He was lying on the floor, with his hat and shoes off, ...
— The Englishwoman in America • Isabella Lucy Bird
... to let it go at the Germans and cannot even safeguard our commerce from attack. The truth, as expounded by the FIRST LORD, is quite different. Despite the jeremiads of superannuated sailors and political longshoremen, the Admiralty is not going to Davy Jones's locker, but under its present chiefs, who have, with very few exceptions, seen service in this War, maintains and supplements its glorious record. Save for an occasional game of "tip and run"—as in ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 153, November 7, 1917 • Various
... once; mebbe somebody's got a hatchet near by, or some lubber's throwed a chain down by the binnacle, or some darned thing's got inside on't, or it's shipped a sea an' got rusted; but there's allers the Dipper an' the North Star; they're allers true to their bearin's, and you can't go to Davy Jones's locker for want of a light'us so long's they're ahead. I calk'late its jes' so about this king-talk; orders is very well when they a'n't agin common sense an' the rights o' natur; but you see, George Tucker, folks will go ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... I should have added. Going east the time is faster, and vice versa," continued the young officer. "At our present speed our clocks must be put about twenty minutes ahead, for a third of an hour has gone to Davy Jones's locker." ...
— Across India - Or, Live Boys in the Far East • Oliver Optic
... there when you arrive; five minutes after the pilot has called "Go ahead!" they, or at least their blue coats and brass buttons, have disappeared from deck and gangway as completely as though they had been consigned to that locker which tradition unanimously ascribes to Davy Jones. But, at the moment of starting, they are there, clean-shaved, blue-coated, and ravenous for fees. I hastened on board. The Kamtschatka was one of my favourite ships. I say was, because she emphatically no longer is. I cannot conceive of any inducement which could entice ...
— The Upper Berth • Francis Marion Crawford
... Toby. "Now I shall play my fiddle and you shall sing your hymn, brother. Boy, go down to the bakery and tell them you are young Gert Schwankfelder that was. The horses are in Davy jones's locker. If you ask any questions you shall ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling
... "Davy Jones seems to have found out where he belongs all right. I presume this is Harry Slater," he went on, looking at the boy around whom the dog ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove • Laura Lee Hope |
