"Take after" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I'd take after it with a good thick stick," was the ready reply. "That is, always supposing that one could ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... That's me," she added, opening another worn case, and displaying the full face of the cheerful child she looked like still in spite of being past sixty. "And here's William an' father together. I take after father, large and heavy, an' William is like mother's folks, short an' thin. He ought to have made something o' himself, bein' a man an' so like mother; but though he's been very steady to work, an' ...
— The Country of the Pointed Firs • Sarah Orne Jewett
... selfish and querulous woman, very difficult to satisfy even in little matters, and with a chronic suspicion that everyone with whom she came in contact was trying to get the best of her. Her eldest girl was likely, Captain Hannay thought, to take after her mother, whose pet she was, while Isobel took after her father. He had suggested that both should be sent to school, but Mrs. Hannay would not hear of parting from Helena, but was willing enough that Isobel should be sent to a boarding ...
— Rujub, the Juggler • G. A. Henty
... good to those children, sir? I know You'll not believe her, even should the Queen Think they take after one they rarely saw. I had intended that my son should live A stranger to these matters: but you are So utterly deprived of friends! He too Must serve you—will you not be good to him? Or, stay, sir, do not promise—do not swear! You, Hollis—do the best you can for me! I've not a soul ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... make you ask dat? Did me ever do any courtin'? You knows I did. Every he thing from a he king down to a bunty rooster gits cited 'bout she things. I's lay wake many nights 'bout sich things. It's de nature of a he, to take after de she. They do say dat a he angel ain't ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various
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