Then he felt his right arm seized, the suckers on the tentacle pressing strong upon his muscles and seeming to draw the blood even under his clothing, and he knew that the baleful creature had again gotten a hold upon him.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
"Boys," it said, "that man has played you for suckers 'bout long enough, and this kind of thing is rough on every decent storekeeper in the town.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
It is impossible to arrest this tendency; all we can do is to moderate its course so as to hinder it from degrading the moral status of societies by a too rapid effacement of those national traditions and customs which are the language of the national genius-the deep suckers of healthy sentiment.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind