"Flyaway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the mountains; his face, from changes of heat and cold and long exposure, was burnt and blistered into all sorts of colours, and, to make his appearance more generally striking, he wore as head-dress, a flyaway, puggery, or turban of blue cotton, of the most voluminous dimensions and wonderful construction imaginable. He gave us an amusing account of his operations among the clouds; how he always rode a cow! and was so much alone ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... a likely place to harbour supernatural horrors! That clear-cut, reasonable face of Monseigneur C——, his collected manner and easy, graceful gestures, were they not just a little discouraging to the notion of a gruesome mystery? I glanced above his head, and almost laughed. That flyaway lady supporting one corner of the pulpit canopy, which looked like a fringed damask table-cloth in a high wind, at the first attempt of a basilisk to pose up there in the organ loft, she would point ...
— The King In Yellow • Robert W. Chambers
... a flyaway critter she is!" the man muttered. "I don't see whatever we're a-goin' to do ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long
... Dimple at her Grandmother's. Dotty Dimple at Home. Dotty Dimple out West. Dotty Dimple at Play. Dotty Dimple at School. Dotty Dimple's Flyaway. ...
— Dotty Dimple Out West • Sophie May |
