"Give chase" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... With infinite precautions she slipped out on the ebb, between the French at the Island Battery and Wolfe's strenuous workers at the Lighthouse Point. But the breeze that bore her north also raised the fog enough to let the Juno and Sutherland sight her and give chase. She crowded on a press of sail till she was overhauled, when she fought her captors ...
— The Great Fortress - A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 • William Wood
... men prepared to give chase. The evidence was, indeed, though circumstantial, so convincing, that but little argument was needed to show the shepherd's guests that after what they had seen it would look very much like connivance if they did not instantly pursue ...
— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy
... mounted his bicycle and is off, and when I feel the prick of the needle, I turn, and, without stopping to look for the bullet, immediately give chase. I am, of course, not able to overtake a man on a racing machine, but still I follow him some distance. Then the poison begins to take effect—the more rapidly from the violent exercise—and presently I drop insensible. ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman
... was on the other side of the swale, under a spruce with low, spreading branches. The look of Pedro quickened Helen's pulse. He was wild to give chase. Fearfully Helen looked where Dale pointed, expecting to see the lion. But she saw instead a deer lying prostrate with tongue out and ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... the trail!" I said to Boyd. "Don't be drawn out of it now. For God's sake hold your men and don't give chase to ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
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