battered Quotes

“Then Grandpa pours some batter into the frying pan, and Dusty pours all of his milk into the batter. ‘No, no, no, NO! I am going crazy!’ shouts Grandpa. He puts Dusty on the floor again.”

“But the true lover of an ancient and honorable breed would have recognized the blood and bone of this elderly and rather battered body; would have known that in his prime this had been a magnificent specimen of compact sinew and muscle, bred to fight and endure; and would have loved him for his curious mixture of wicked, unyielding fighter yet devoted and docile family pet, and above all for the irrepressible air of sly merriment which beamed in his little slant eyes.”