"Stick to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reached five thousand dirhams, whilst their mate still said, "I'll not vend him save for ten thousand silver pieces." The Shroff advised him to sell, but he would not do this and said to him, "Ho, shaykh! Thou wottest not the case of this donkey. Stick to silver and gold and what pertaineth thereto of exchange and small change; because indeed the virtue of this ass is a mystery to thee. For every craft its crafty men and for every means of livelihood its peculiar people." When the affair was prolonged upon the three sharpers, they went away and sat ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... don't! Please make out a wholesome bill of fare, and I'll stick to it, if I can. I am getting stout, and I don't like it; and my liver's torpid, and I have palpitations and headache. Overwork, mother says; but it may be overeating.' And Stuffy gave a sigh of mingled regret for the good things ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... our officer don't order us different, we'll all stick to one another, sick and sound, to ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn
... in recognizing the genius of Velasquez, and hanging on to him closely, rubbing off all the glory that he could make stick to himself. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard
... made for the thick of the woods. My resolution was to stick to them though they should be thick as fish glue. Under good cover Munson dressed my wound. My fingers had begun stiffening up a bit, and I worked them to keep the trigger finger in good trim, thinking at the time what a ludicrous shot I'd be with the left hand. A thought for soldiers ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
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