Koeneke, like an oracle asquat his own fissure, has written a book that is unconscionably nifty-gallifty. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Matt walked through the neighborhood to see the old building, number 611, and wondered idly who lived in their third-floor apartment, what language spoken, how many grinding lives, but mainly he thought of nine-year-old Nicky asquat the glory seat. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)
And the eager attention with which his flock, asquat on the floor, listened to a very long sermon, showed he had chosen well when he refused to leave them. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)
We left him asquat on the stream bank, washing his treasure-trove. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)
As he sat asquat, with his rifle across his knees, he rolled with mirth at the mere recollection. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)
A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
Then, if you persist, you make out a misty hollow where equally misty and dark lumps are asquat or prone or wandering from one corner to another. ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)
Perhaps to get into the mood of the waterways one needs to have seen old Amos Judson asquat on the headgate with his gun, guarding his water-right toward the end of a dry summer. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Mr. Orchard afterwards remembered to have seen this same beggar man, or the image of him, off and on during the two previous days, seated asquat against a post on the Bund, and watching the _Albemarle_, with his crutch and bowl beside him. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Involuntarily Amber's eyes turned in search of the crushed candidate whom she almost saw flattened beneath the 2033 votes, and whom it would scarcely have been a surprise to find asquat under a carriage, humbly assisting the footmen to pack the dirty plates. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
This was a delightful way of going to sleep; the awakening was not quite so pleasant, however, for I opened my eyes only to see a dozen of the ugly 'golochs' on my rug, and others asquat on the saddle, washing their faces as flies do. ❋ Gordon Stables (1875)
No! with a hundred quarterings, they were as indigenous, incorruptible heraldry reasserted, as the old yew - trees asquat on the heath. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
No! with a hundred quarterings, they were as indigenous, incorruptible heraldry reasserted, as the old yew-trees 'asquat on the heath. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
I went down this morning when breakfast was ready with a very uneasy heart, from what Hannah had informed me of yesterday afternoon; wishing for an opportunity, however, to appeal to my mother, in hopes to engage her interest in my behalf, and purposing to try to find one when she retired to her own apartment after breakfast: but, unluckily, there was the odious Solmes, sitting asquat between my mother and sister, with so much assurance in his looks! — ❋ Unknown (2006)
a snowy night, five rocket bombs since noon, shivering in the kitchen, late and candlelit, Osbie Feel the house idiot-savant so far into an encounter with nutmeg this evening that the inquiry seems quite proper, the pale cement Jungfrau asquat, phlegmatic and one gathers nettled in a dim corner. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
I went down this morning when breakfast was ready with a very uneasy heart, from what Hannah had informed me of yesterday afternoon; wishing for an opportunity, however, to appeal to my mother, in hopes to engage her interest in my behalf, and purposing to try to find one when she retired to her own apartment after breakfast: but, unluckily, there was the odious Solmes, sitting asquat between my mother and sister, with so much assurance in his looks! ❋ Samuel Richardson (1725)
