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"Skittish" Quotes from Famous Books

... come forth. Even these the moucher sometimes captures; for there is nothing so strange but that some one selects it for a pet. The mad March hares scamper about in broad daylight over the corn, whose pale green blades rise in straight lines a few inches above the soil. They are chasing their skittish loves, instead of soberly dreaming the day away in a bunch of grass. The ploughman walks in the furrow his share has made, and presently stops to measure the 'lands' with the spud. His horses halt dead ...

— The Amateur Poacher • Richard Jefferies

... of some light material, fastened round the waist of the morrice-dancer, who imitated the movements of a skittish horse. ...

— The Alchemist • Ben Jonson

... "Germans," buy no "British," Sound Havanas only smoke! "Lady Nicotine" is skittish, Penny Pickwicks are ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 19, 1892 • Various

... Be skittish, child, and let who will be graceful, Do whizzy whirls whenever you've the chance; And so make life, death and that grand old staircase ...

— The Re-echo Club • Carolyn Wells

... your statistics and stop when you want to. But statistics are like automobiles. Sometimes if you hitch yourself up with a statistic, you meet the fate of the farmer who put his fool head in the yoke with a skittish steer. ...

— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 • Rupert Hughes

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