"Sizzle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... apples and pears and late plums had of becoming really fine, self-respecting fruit. Even now it was beating against the leaded windows, and tumbling down the chimney, making the cheerful wood fire sizzle in the hearth. ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... of Normandy. Her kitchen faces the main street; you simply step over the threshold as you hear the beating of eggs, and there, over an immense open fire, which roars gloriously up the chimney, are the fowls twirling on their strings and dripping deliciously into the pans which sizzle complainingly ...
— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell
... belt's gittin' colder every winter." The stranger broke off an icicle and laid it on the stove to hear it sizzle. ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... Fixed Depositors, had gone. How, you said to yourself despairingly, can his place be filled? Then the cloud broke, and the sun shone out again. I came to help you. What you lose on the swings, you make up on the roundabouts. Now show me what I have to do, and then let us make this department sizzle. You have drawn a ...
— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse
... fought. The men were trampling all over my back, and I lay low. Then our rowers on the left side—tied to their oars, you know—began to yell and back water. I could hear the water sizzle, and we spun round like a cockchafer and I knew, lying where I was, that there was a galley coming up bow-on, to ram us on the left side. I could just lift up my head and see her sail over the bulwarks. We wanted to meet her bow to bow, but it was too late. We could only turn a little ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
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