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... a little angered by the man's persistence. "I'll see that that doesn't happen," he replied, "and I'll leave no stone unturned to find the scoundrel who really did the deed, and have him punished. But I'm not certain that the man will prove to be ...

— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

... knowing to what lengths their baffled rage might not have gone. Eva had heard of things in bygone days which she could not recall without a shudder, and the farmer and Jack, with clenched hands and stern faces, vowed that they would leave no stone unturned until the country was rid of these ...

— In the Wars of the Roses - A Story for the Young • Evelyn Everett-Green

... "But we have a proverb, 'Where there's a will there's a way,' and I have a determined will to save my poor friend from this slavery. I will not cease to try—as we say in England, 'I will leave no stone unturned,'—till I have accomplished this thing. Moreover I will not cease to pray for this end. Mamba's trust in God puts me to shame. Up to this time I have only recognised by name that Saviour whom this man worships. God helping me, I ...

— The Fugitives - The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar • R.M. Ballantyne

... of the unfavorable disposition of that body, since the succession of females was not countenanced by the ancient usage of the country; and the Aragonese, as Martyr remarks in one of his Epistles, "were well known to be a pertinacious race, who would leave no stone unturned, in the maintenance of ...

— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott

... find that it would cost them a good deal before they got through with him, as, after his acquittal, he would certainly sue them for heavy damages. He knew the wealth of the company, and that they would "leave no stone unturned" to ruin him, but he had no fears as to the result, when the facts were laid before ...

— The Expressman and the Detective • Allan Pinkerton

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