"Get by" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for you!" I cried. To hear that namby-pamby woman, who is about as capable of understanding you as an old cat, talking about your being firm! You see what you get by being quiet and patient! People would like you much better if you refused to be comforted, and ...
— Stepping Heavenward • Mrs. E. Prentiss
... frequent saying, and implies more than is at first sight apparent. (The man with only one cow will be at times without milk.) The import of the saying is something more than a mere statement of fact. You have only one cow, and you are certain to be at times without milk. Get by your industry and perseverance two cows or three, and then you are pretty sure to have more or less milk ...
— The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 • Various
... pigsties, the tool-shed, the cart-shed and a smithy that was no longer used. They were all like so many mysteries, with trap-doors that led down to pitch-dark, underground beet and potato cellars, from which, of course, you could get by secret passages to the strangest places underground, and other trap-doors that led up to dark lofts, where the most wonderful treasures were preserved in the form ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... popping in with his saint before him,—they were two of the greatest saints in the whole martyrology, added my father—Excuse me, said the sacristan—'twas to touch the bones of Saint Germain, the builder of the abbey—And what did she get by it? said my uncle Toby—What does any woman get by it? said my father—Martyrdome; replied the young Benedictine, making a bow down to the ground, and uttering the word with so humble, but decisive a cadence, it disarmed my father for a moment. 'Tis supposed, continued ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... get by the forts? Both of them have been garrisoned, and they have been ordered to allow no vessel to pass unless she give a good account of ...
— Taken by the Enemy • Oliver Optic
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