DEDE ANTANAS in Classic Quotes

1  When the song is over, it is time for the speech, and old Dede Antanas rises to his feet.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

2  In the first place she was developing a cough, like the one that had killed old Dede Antanas.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

3  Dede Antanas is asleep, and so are the Szedvilases, husband and wife, the former snoring in octaves.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

4  Dede Antanas continued to believe it, while three more hemorrhages came; and then at last one morning they found him stiff and cold.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

5  In the meantime there was going on in another corner of the room an anxious conference between Teta Elzbieta and Dede Antanas, and a few of the more intimate friends of the family.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1

6  And Elzbieta would call upon Dede Antanas to support her; there was a fear in the souls of these two, lest this journey to a new country might somehow undermine the old home virtues of their children.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

7  Generally it is the custom for the speech at a veselija to be taken out of one of the books and learned by heart; but in his youthful days Dede Antanas used to be a scholar, and really make up all the love letters of his friends.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1