"Carry away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exertions against the Dutch. In January (?) 1666 two buccaneer captains, Searles and Stedman, with two small ships and only eighty men took the island of Tobago, near Trinidad, and destroyed everything they could not carry away. Lord Willoughby, governor of Barbadoes, had also fitted out an expedition to take the island, but the Jamaicans were three or four days before him. The latter were busy with their work of pillage, when Willoughby arrived ...
— The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century • Clarence Henry Haring
... dream," replied the Indian, "and he told me his dream. He dreamt that the white boy was put into his mother's arms, who wept for joy, and the white man gave to the Angry Snake ten rifles, and two kegs of powder, and as much lead as four men could carry away." ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat
... replied the Kite. "That would be a very simple matter. I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it ...
— The AEsop for Children - With pictures by Milo Winter • AEsop
... she did not receive my intelligence as a deliverance. I am glad if she can carry away an affectionate remembrance, but I want to have her under my ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge
... their pleasure, and beside the taking of victuals as they would for their own use, they have in severall places wilfully destroyed the same, and have plundred many houses, taking all away they could and destroying what they could not carry away; in this great oppression & spoil of goods as the sufferers were many so choise hath been made of those who Petitioned the High and Honourable Court of Parliament for satisfaction to their Consciences before the Engagement, or who were known to make conscience of the ...
— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland
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