"Do in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Captain Danie Theron was no longer with me, because he, being a Transvaaler, had gone with General Louis Botha. But there was another: Gideon J. Scheepers.[42] To him I entrusted the task of reconnoitring the British, so that the carriages which were going to fetch the ammunition could do in safety what they were required to do, and I knew that ...
— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
... mind; let us pretend I'm Major Grim disguised as an Arab; only, I'm afraid we must continue the conversation in Arabic; I might disillusion you if I tried to talk English. We'll say then that I'm Major Grim, disguised. Let's see now... What would he do in the circumstances? Here's Yussuf Dakmar, wanted for murder in the city and known to be plotting a massacre, seen climbing a wall when the sentry's back was turned, and caught in conference with Mr. Charkian, confidential clerk to the Administration. I'm sorry I didn't hear all that was said ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy
... By Jove, you and I understand each other over this. I know Crayford by heart. We've got to what the French call 'eblouir' him when we get him here. We must play upon him with the scenery proposition; what he can do in the way of wonderful new stage effects. When we've got him thoroughly worked up over the libretto and the scenery prop., we'll begin to let him hear the music, but not a moment before. We can't be too careful, ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... say or do in the presence of Saniel's sombre face and preoccupation, which she could not explain, she asked him if ...
— Conscience, Complete • Hector Malot
... the women, with pitiable wailing, deplored with their customary weepings the hope of their nation thus cut off in the early bloom of youth; as the worshippers of Venus are often seen to do in the solemn festival of Adonis, which the mystical doctrines of religion show to be some sort of image of the ripened ...
— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus
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