"Scare away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the vacant carcass, from which the life is newly dislodged, shifting between earth and heaven, the sport of every gust; like a weathercock, serving to show from which point the wind blows; like a maukin, fit only to scare away birds; like a nest left to swing upon a bough when the bird is flown: these are uses to which we cannot without a mixture of spleen and contempt behold the human carcass reduced. We string up dogs, foxes, bats, moles, weasels. Man surely ...
— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb
... on with his exercise. Presently he looked up again and yawned. "I think I'll go for a stroll," he said, and put his book by. "I know what I'll do," he said, suddenly; "I'll take that doll and hang it up to the apple tree to scare away the sparrows." And calling out, "Sis, I have taken your doll; I'm going to make a scarecrow of it," he went ...
— Very Short Stories and Verses For Children • Mrs. W. K. Clifford
... Grief cannot come where perfect love exists, Except to heighten it, and vanish from 600 That which it could not scare away. Let's in— The hour approaches, and we must prepare To meet the invited guests who grace ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... lions, whereof there were great numbers in this veld. The prevalence of these hungry beasts forced us to watch our cattle very closely while they grazed, and at night, wherever it was possible, to protect them and ourselves in "bombast," or fences of thorns, within which we lit fires to scare away wild beasts. Notwithstanding these precautions, we lost several of the oxen, and ourselves had some ...
— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard
... mirror which her husband had arranged for that purpose. A faint smile flitted over her lips when she recognized how barely perceptible was now that crimson hand which had once blazed forth with such disastrous brilliancy as to scare away all their happiness. But then her eyes sought Aylmer's face with a trouble and anxiety that he could ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
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