"Get about" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on me was as a rose, and my limbs was straight. 'Twas fleet like a rabbit as I could get about, the days that was ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin
... task. Having declared her intention of staying till the master could get about again, "wage or no wage," she had found a certain recompense in keeping a strong hand over her mistress, scolding her for "moithering" herself, and going about all day without changing her cap, and looking as if she was ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... not just yet. You'll have to take care of yourself for a week or two when you get about again." Mr. Halliday smiled faintly as his ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... you. Yet I must go so far as to say that, even had the case not been so desperate—had there been a glimmer of hope—even then I should not have lightly intervened, nor been very ready to administer drugs; I should have been afraid of what might happen, and of the sort of stories that might get about. You know the universal belief that every step-mother, whatever her general merits, hates her step-sons; it is supposed to be a feminine mania from which none of them is exempt. If the disease had taken a wrong turn, and the medicine failed ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... time until it appeared. Somehow or other Cecilia let the great glad news get about the village. Farley, our newsagent and tobacconist, held me when I went in for an ounce ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 21st, 1920 • Various
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