"Get hold of" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... get hold of Lampron for a moment in the crowd he so dislikes. He was more uncouth and ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... and solely for the reason that, after that fiasco in London, I raised my right hand—thus—and swore an oath that never, as long as I lived, would I again put up a cent for a production, were it the most obvious cinch on earth. I'm gun-shy. But if he does happen to get hold of any one with a sporting disposition and a few thousands to invest, that person will make a fortune. This piece is going ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... near a century after Henry the Fowler's feat, the Wends bursting up in never-imagined fury, get hold of Brandenburg again,—for the third and, one would fain hope, the last time. The reason was, words spoken by the then Markgraf of Brandenburg, Dietrich or Theodoric, last of the Witekind Markgraves; who hearing that a Cousin of his (Markgraf or Deputy-Markgraf ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol, II. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Of Brandenburg And The Hohenzollerns--928-1417 • Thomas Carlyle
... world, or an old opera-singer who'd lost her voice but could still sing a little. A woman who knows what trouble is. And I'd get a girl to keep her company, a sort of housemaid, with a couple of black gins or half-castes to help her. I'd get hold of some poor girl who'd been deceived and deserted: and a baby or two wouldn't be an objection—the kids would amuse the chaps and help humanize ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson
... government, nor public worship, nor politics, nor morals, nor people in office, nor influential corporations, nor the Opera, nor the other theatres, nor anybody that belongs to anything, I may print everything freely, subject to the approval of two or three censors." "How I should like to get hold of one of those people that are powerful for a few days, and that give evil orders so lightly, after a good reverse of favor had sobered him of his pride! I would tell him, that foolish things in print are important only where their circulation is interfered with; ...
— The Eve of the French Revolution • Edward J. Lowell
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