"Starring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... property qualification of members for the Legislative Council.—The identical thing for 'starring' on stumps ...
— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello
... captain, and even the dreaded teacher looked approvingly on. It was after that episode of no avail for even the sturdiest of their schoolmates to seek to belittle the Cranston fame. Louis, the elder, could not invent a whopper so big as to tax the credulity of the school. Buffalo Bill was "starring it" with his theatrical company through the States that spring, playing some blood-curdling, scalp-taking; hair-raising border drama which all boys eager strove to see, and when his old chum and comrade, the captain, went to call on him ...
— Under Fire • Charles King |
