"Give way" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prince. Know, sir, that you see before you one who has known that dignity, but who never shall know it more! O Amalia, Amalia!—dear wife of my bosom—where art thou now! Pardon me, kinsman—your hand—I do not often betray this weakness, but my heart is full, and I needs must give way to its emotion." So saying, the unfortunate Mandeville bowed down his head and wept; at least, so I concluded, from a ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... one, 'surely that is the old woman that the king sent for. Shall we wish that her clothes may give way, and that she should be dashed ...
— The Pink Fairy Book • Various
... the eve of substituting paper for bullion. I am aware of the Canadian prejudice against such a circulating medium, but it must give way to the ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper
... of play and idleness, which might seem to indicate a certain absence of reflection and feeling, there were moments when the youthful poet would retire thoughtfully within himself, and give way to moods of musing uncongenial with the usual cheerfulness of his age. They show a tomb in the churchyard at Harrow, commanding a view over Windsor, which was so well known to be his favourite resting-place, that the boys called ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore
... set free all the other slaves, male and female, who are being dragged from the interior of Africa. You and I may perhaps do some small matter in the way of helping to free slaves, if we keep quiet and watch our opportunity, but we shall accomplish nothing if you give way to useless ...
— Black Ivory • R.M. Ballantyne
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