"Leave alone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... o'clock, when the water commenced to rise very rapidly, and I thought it was best to get out of town. I told a number of women that they had better go to the hills, but they refused, and the cause of this refusal was that their husbands would not go with them and they refused to leave alone." ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... would consider that the terms offered to itself and the conditions proposed by the emissary were such that the operation was suspicious, and that being mixed up with suspicious business was a luxury that it preferred to leave alone. ...
— International Finance • Hartley Withers
... is a sad thing, I cannot choose but say, And all the fault of that indecent sun, Who cannot leave alone our helpless clay, But will keep baking, broiling, burning on, That howsoever people fast and pray, The flesh is frail, and so the soul undone: What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, Is much more common ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... home they went with drooping tails, And pace so lame and jerky, And said, "Next time we'll tease the hens, And leave alone the turkey." ...
— Naughty Puppies • Anonymous
... quarrelling and the brothers are telling that they would be quarrelling and the parents are telling to don't be stupid and to embrace and became friends and the brothers are telling, Go away, parents, and to leave alone to be quarrelling in peace. But it is too difficult and many months are passing and the brothers are—please, what is stanchi? Excuse me, it is fatigued, and are embracing to make pleasure to the parents and to make riunione outside and ...
— Diversions in Sicily • H. Festing Jones
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