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"Peppery" Quotes from Famous Books

... seeking entertainment. And your peppery affairs promise it. Do you give me permission ...

— In the Shadow of the Hills • George C. Shedd

... sister, on the roof, as hereinbefore set forth. But both the bishop and the senator were thoughtful for them and when they came tardily to the board they found the group close about the old commodore, their own places saved and the judge and the general sustaining the squire's rather peppery assertion to the courteous but vilely inconvincible commodore, that certain new laws of Congress must be upheld with all the national power, Yankee mobs be squarely shot into and their leaders hanged, or the Federal Union would not long ...

— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... red, peppery little officer, whose shaven cheeks and close gray hair gave him the look of a parson gone wrong, a hedge-priest run away to sea. Two tall Chinese boys scurried about with wicker chairs, with trays of bottles, ...

— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout

... "You're such a peppery chap—always wanting to fight someone. Well, I must be gone. You'll remember not ...

— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell

... course, having a real peppery college in its midst, Jonesville couldn't help but grow. People came and started boarding-houses. There had to be restaurants and bookstores and necktie emporiums, too, and pretty soon the railroad built a couple of branches ...

— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch

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