"Be on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or any other that is to be used on this Occasion till you think your Adversary is within your measure. This step must be always made on plain Ground, lest you Trip and fall, which is very dangerous; but if it be on rugged uneven Ground, there is another suitable to it, called the ...
— The School of Recreation (1696 edition) • Robert Howlett
... relates to the house of Wychecombe has interest in my eyes; and I have endeavoured, successfully I trust, to ascertain all that relates to its births, marriages, and deaths. I greatly regret that the second time I enter this venerable dwelling, should be on an occasion as melancholy as this, on which I am now summoned. How is your respectable—how is Sir Wycherly Wychecombe, I ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... answer was that he hoped nothing of the sort would happen; that he believed there was no design of proceeding to hostilities against Holland; and that it was much the wish of the French Government to be on good terms with this country; that they wished to menager l'Angleterre, and therefore to menager l'Hollande; that these were the sentiments of M. le Brun when he left Paris about 3 weeks ago; that he believed them to be those of M. Dumouriez; and ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... on the spot when trouble occurred. This particular policeman was passing through the train shed and he saw the blow delivered. He ran up and, to be on the safe side, put both men under technical arrest. The sweeper, who had been bowled over by the clout he had got, made a charge of unprovoked assault against the stranger; the latter expressed a blasphemous regret ...
— The Thunders of Silence • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... out again. I know it is; or the kettle is sure to boil over, or something. Do be on the spot, and let Ermie make herself useful ...
— The Children of Wilton Chase • Mrs. L. T. Meade
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