"Indoor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dusting, a little scrubbing, a little sweeping, a little cooking. The finest kind of indoor exercise. Later you may write a little—but very little. Run and play out of doors with the children. When I see you again you will have roses in your cheeks like the ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... a family if you don't get society out of them? The question I ask is, when the winter shuts us in, what are we going to do for sport—work—what you will? It's indoor sport I'm meaning, for Harry and I have the hunting and providing in the daytime. No, never you ask me what I was doing before you came. I was my ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine
... at an age when they should be keenly sensitive. It is only within ten years or so that very many of the higher schools have made a point of indoor sanitation beyond plumbing provisions. Outdoor sports have been relied upon to give sufficient impetus to the ...
— Euthenics, the science of controllable environment • Ellen H. Richards
... protest. Under the rule of the Rev. Septimus this would have been the signal for the rest of the class to leave their places and assist him, but now they seemed to realize that there was a time for everything, and that this was decidedly no time for indoor games. ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... carts jog around and throw out their wares. Laundry wagons are astir. A little fat tailor on an occasion carries in an armful of newly pressed clothing with suspenders hanging. Dogs are taken out to walk but are held in leash, lest a taste of liberty spoil them for an indoor life. The center of the park is laid out with grass and trees and pebbled paths, and about it is a high iron fence. Each house has a key to the enclosure. Such social infection, therefore, as gets inside the ...
— There's Pippins And Cheese To Come • Charles S. Brooks
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