"Time out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beautiful they spent a great deal of time out of doors, and when Mrs. Morrison did not care to go herself she would send Frances with Zenobia for a walk or a ride on the cars, to the delight of the latter, who ...
— The Spectacle Man - A Story of the Missing Bridge • Mary F. Leonard
... earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and birds of the air. (7)And I heard a voice saying to me: Arise, Peter; slay and eat. (8)But I said: Not so, Lord; for nothing common or unclean ever entered into my mouth. (9)But a voice answered me a second time out of heaven: What God cleansed, regard not thou as common. (10)And this was done three times; and all were drawn up again ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... Toby. "You both heard what Fred said about his father having made a fortune honestly in the mines, working ever so hard, just to prove to his wife how he had surely reformed, and wanted to show it by deeds. They'll have no need to worry over money matters from this time out. And let's hope the prodigal dad will make everybody so happy that they'll almost be glad he went bad and ...
— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton
... trump. Three cheers, boys, for the Captain and company.' And as he started them himself, the boys did give 'em, too. 'Captain, you'll not be forgotten—be easy on that point.' And I was easy, until a fit of sickness that I got put my fortune for the time out of Rosy's hands. The men never forgot that trip. The Sergeant often said though, it was the only trip he wasn't altogether pleased with, because, I suppose, his black eye was a ...
— Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals - As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac • William H. Armstrong
... We are a notable people for our attachment to the frying-pan, and there is no doubt that it is a shifty utensil: it can be slung at the saddle-bow or carried in a valise, it will bear the jolting of a corduroy road, and furnish a camp-mess in the minimum of time out of material that was perhaps but a moment before sniffing or pecking at its rim. A very little blaze sets the piece of cold fat swimming, and the black cavity soon glows and splutters with extemporaneous content. But what dreams howl about the camp-fires, what hideous scalping-humor creeps ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various
|
