"Louse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bought an "extra" which had contained a brief account of the Ella's return. He seems to have gone into a frenzy of excitement at once. He borrowed a small car,—one scornfully designated as a "road louse,"—and assembled in it, in wild confusion, one suit of clothes for me, his own and much too small, one hypodermic case, an armful of newspapers with red scare-heads, a bottle of brandy, a bottle ...
— The After House • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... brands of the fire smouldered all day in a bank of ashes; there was never any flame in his grate. He went through his day, from his uprising to his evening coughing-fit, with the regularity of a pendulum, and in some sort was a clockwork man, wound up by a night's slumber. Touch a wood-louse on an excursion across your sheet of paper, and the creature shams death; and in something the same way my acquaintance would stop short in the middle of a sentence, while a cart went by, to save the strain to his voice. Following the example of Fontenelle, he was thrifty of pulse-strokes, ...
— Gobseck • Honore de Balzac
... creatures besides those snails and mussels which I described in a previous chapter, are the water-louse (Asellus aquaticus), Cypridae, and Cyclops quadricornis. Asellus is very similar in size and shape to the common garden-louse, which is found in decaying wood. It will live either in stagnant or running water. Cypridae are very much smaller, being generally only as ...
— Amateur Fish Culture • Charles Edward Walker
... sick man had friends or comrades, of course part of their duty, in taking care of him, was to "louse" his clothing. One of the most effectual ways of doing this was to turn the garments wrong side out and hold the seams as close to the fire as possible, without burning the cloth. In a short time the lice would swell up and burst open, like pop-corn. This method was a favorite one for ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
... finger his beard from under his arm; and Dom. Consul, thinking it was a fly, struck at him with his hand, without even looking up; but when he felt the constable his hand, he jumped up and asked him what he wanted? whereupon the fellow answered, "Oh, only a louse was creeping there, and ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold |
