"Skyrocket" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Christmas, won't it, little missy, for both of us? A big Christmas for both of us; you as sound and round as a peach again, and me shooting up like a skyrocket ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... won't wash, will it, you fellows?" cried Parson, excitedly, planting himself firmly in his place, and evidently seeing through the deep designs of the enemy. "Bother seconding! I mean to move my amendment, if I stick here all night! (Terrific Skyrocket cheers.) We kids have been snubbed long enough, and we're going to make a stand!" ("Question," "Order.") "All very well for you to sing ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... but fifty cents a share, an' it's goin' up like a skyrocket, an' there's others. There's a new railroad out there, an' other mines, an' a new invention for makin' fuel out of coal-dust, ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
