"Tire out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... afternoon, and the two points at issue, the endowing a Regius Professorship, and the countenancing Jowett's theological opinions, got so inextricably mixed up that I rose to beg that they might be kept separate. Once on my feet, I said more than I at first meant, and defied them ever to tire out the opposition by perpetually bringing the question on (Mem.: if I ever speak again I will try to say no more than I had resolved before rising). This was my first ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
... horse to drive a long journey, and are afraid that he will tire out before he gets ...
— Rollo in London • Jacob Abbott
... regaining his lost ground, drifting down again, trying hard to tire out and subdue his heart-pangs, Bedell dallied with death more closely than ever. He had let his skiff drift far down toward the Falls. Often he could see the wide smooth curve where the green volume first lapses vastly on a lazy slope, to shoulder up below ...
— Old Man Savarin and Other Stories • Edward William Thomson
... in a smothered voice from her shoulder, "this is 'Our Father' week! Don't tire out the Lord with the 'Now ...
— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess
... debate followed, now, and lasted hour after hour. The friends of the bill were instructed by the leaders to make no effort to check it; it was deemed better strategy to tire out the opposition; it was decided to vote down every proposition to adjourn, and so continue the sitting into the night; opponents might desert, then, one by one and weaken their party, for they had no personal stake in ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner |
