"Before long" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... band, assailing me with brawny strength, seized me with both hands by the hair, and bending me backward, prepared to beat out my brains with a paving stone; but while he was still shouting for one, with an unerring stroke I luckily ran him through and stretched him at my feet. Before long a second stroke, aimed between the shoulders, finished off another of them, as he clung tooth and nail to my legs; while the third one, as he rashly advanced, I ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... Their capital was a hundred dollars which some one had loaned to them. They ran their little business on a cooperative basis, paying for the meals and putting back any surplus into a reserve. No one contributed anything, but before long they paid back the one hundred dollars. Early in 1922 they incorporated. They then owned a fine modern restaurant, had done $70,000 worth of business in 1921, and had three thousand dollars in the bank. And no one had ever paid a cent into the ...
— Consumers' Cooperative Societies in New York State • The Consumers' League of New York
... a big fish of some sort, of that there is no doubt," responded Harry. "The fellow will get tired before long, and then we will make him ...
— Adrift in a Boat • W.H.G. Kingston
... sea showing like a surface of molten lead, sluggishly undulating like the coils of a sleeping snake, while overhead stretched an unbroken pall of dark grey cloud that seemed to promise a drenching downpour of rain before long. ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... Mrs. Baron. "As soon as possible, we must bring about some system and order. One of the first things to do is to get as many provisions and delicacies as possible under lock and key, especially the coffee and sugar. They are going to give out anyway, before long." ...
— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe
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