The fool-killer ought to lay around here for a while. ❋ A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton (N/A)
And the woods are so full of that class of fellows that the fool-killer has become discouraged and jumped his job. ❋ Unknown (1919)
"He'll be a real man some day," thought Carson, "if the fool-killer don't pick him off first." ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)
License 'the fool-killer' to ply his vocation on the rest of the fraternity, from the horn-book consequential, who teaches readin ', writin', spellin ', and' rithmetic, to the learned Dr. Profundus of the Faculty. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The foregoing is irrefutable evidence that the fool-killer is enacting the rôle of cunctator. ❋ Unknown (1905)
It's easy to stand hard times, because that's the only thing you can do, but in good times the fool-killer has to do night work. ❋ George Horace Lorimer (1902)
The editor was musing on this remarkable controversy and wondering, in a vague, tired way, why the fool-killer did not take a pot-shot at the Dallas Pastors 'Association, when there came a gentle rap at his door and a strange figure stood before him. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Miss Mary didn't say much -- she's allus mighty quiet an 'sober an' dignified; but Mandy, the second gal, she flared up an 'allowed a fool-killer would be a mighty welcome vis'tor to that neighborhood, that he would. ❋ Unknown (1895)
In the earthquake of 1812, when the tower fell, one of the domes was crushed, but the others remained fairly solid and intact until the sixties of the last century, when, with a zeal that outran all discretion, and that the fool-killer should have been permitted to restrain, they were blown up with gunpowder by mistaken friends who expected to rebuild the church with the same material, but never did so. ❋ George Wharton James (1890)
Still the fool-killer has missed a good many on account of the great rush of business in his line, and I presume that no one has a greater reason to be thankful for this oversight than I have. ❋ Bill Nye (1873)
The fool-killer, in the meantime, has not been idle. ❋ Bill Nye (1873)
Then we'll anticipate the fool-killer, if you like. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
If the fool-killer were let loose on the line with a big club, and knocked a little civility into their heads, it wouldn't be a bad thing, and would be a particular relief to the passengers for Gilead who have to take the stage from ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
"Ye can’t keep lackings from freightin’ round speciments — naw, sir, ye can’t, not till the fool-killer has finished his job." ❋ Marie Manning (N/A)
Daney wrote me you swore by all your Highland clan that the man who sold you that red cedar was ripe for the fool-killer. " ❋ Unknown (1918)
If you want to wait till I'm healed up so I can die in comfort, why, go ahead and buy that fool-killer boat, and we'll all commit suicide together. " ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
"He allowed to me," said Dan'l thoughtfully, "that YOU was a poor critter that hadn't a single reason to show for livin ': that the fool-killer had bin shadderin' you from your birth, and that you hadn't paid a cent profit on your father's original investment in ye, nor on the assessments he'd paid on ye ever since. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
When the [fool killer] sees you bunch of [peckerwoods], he'll just shake his head an [walk away]. ❋ The Voice From The Outer World (2008)
