"Come off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the prince with his resolute eyes, and, with a faint smile, began immediately talking to Countess Nordston of the great ball that was to come off next week. ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... old Captain Everard just then, he nodded after them and said, 'That's an excellent arrangement; the wedding, I hear, is fixed for the twenty-ninth of next month.' Now, I don't quite believe that; Angela would certainly have told me, but I am sure it will come off soon. I am glad ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... we'll consider that it's to come off, when convenient to you. Have you dined with ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... turned off the road to where the pack-horse had been picketed, "I think we're both pretty lucky to have come off so easily." ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... know that, whenever we are attacked, we defend our own with bravery and good will: being assured both by thy reading and thy personal experience that in battle it has been rare for Romans to meet with disaster; and that in the final issue of a war we have never come off the worst." ...
— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus
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