"Getting even" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... himself," said Mrs. Easterfield, "but he asserts that he spends a great deal of his time getting even with people." ...
— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton
... fight on Bert, or whether the unexpected fall that came to him, caused it, no one knew, but certainly, for the next few days, Danny let Bert alone. When he passed him he scowled, or shook his fist, or muttered something about "getting even," ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope
... you, boys,' says he, 'that Nicaragua slapped an import duty of 48 per cent. ad valorem on all bottled goods last month. The President took a bottle of Cincinnati hair tonic by mistake for tobasco sauce, and he's getting even. Barrelled ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
... back with me. And at that rate you can see for yourself how long it will take to make even a beginning at colonization. I figure three or four days for the round trip, at the inside. If you go we'll be all summer and more getting even twenty-five or thirty colonists here. Whereas, if you can manage to let me do this work alone, we'll have fifty in the caves by ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... declared Jack. "He went off mad when you turned him down, and I heard him muttering to himself about 'getting even.' I'm sure he's the chap to blame ...
— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis |
