"By hook or by crook" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gifts. There was no question of that. By hook or by crook she saw to it that the bazaar under the piano lamp ...
— Mrs. Budlong's Chrismas Presents • Rupert Hughes
... this point we plainly discern the task assigned to modern art—that of stupefying or intoxicating, of lulling to sleep or bewildering. By hook or by crook to make conscience unconscious! To assist the modern soul over the sensation of guilt, not to lead it back to innocence! And this for the space of moments only! To defend men against themselves, that their ...
— Thoughts out of Season (Part One) • Friedrich Nietzsche
... at his door, and almost count the ears of corn in his fields across the river, he must make a circuit of five miles to reach them. Such an immense loss of time and labor troubled him no little, and, as he had no desire to sell his property, he determined by hook or by crook to remedy the evil. Day and night he turned the perplexing problem over in his mind. He might, to be sure, swim across, but then there were his tools to be carried. At last it flashed upon him: Why not make an aerial car? He bought ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various
... to see to what this strain would lead; but I was determined not to assist him. Indeed, I mischievously pretended to turn the conversation, and talked of his usual topics, dogs, horses, and hunting; but he was very brief in his replies, and invariably got back, by hook or by crook, into the sentimental vein. ...
— Bracebridge Hall • Washington Irving
... looked forward to the hour when it would be dark. "By hook or by crook," he muttered, ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman
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