"String out" Quotes from Famous Books
... County, adjoining Floyd, where Walter Scott Harkins had an eye for timber, his young friend was being twitted for a different reason. "John Caldwell Calhoun Mayo," they'd string out his long name, "when you're cooped up in the poorhouse or the lunatic asylum, you can't say we didn't warn you to quit digging around trying to find ... — Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... "You might string out a few flags," Gissing said. He had been noticing the bright signal buntings in the rack, and thought it a ... — Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley |