"Come through" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has come through the Courcelette fight safely, where the New Brunswickers did such wonders; but O! ...
— 'My Beloved Poilus' • Anonymous
... an end on't; As 'twas made out to us the last Expedient — ( I mean Marg'ret's Fast,) 520 When Providence had been suborn'd, What answer was to be return'd. Else why should tumults fright us now, We have so many times come through? And understand as well to tame, 525 As when they serve our turns t'inflame: Have prov'd how inconsiderable Are all engagements of the rabble, Whose frenzies must be reconcil'd With drums and rattles, like ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler
... smoothly-shaven face grown red with exposure to the weather, silvery short-cropped hair, and fine, impressive features. His old college friend, the Rev. Mr. Lynnton, was a smaller man, and somewhat younger, though his pale face had a sad expression, as though he had come through much trouble. He also was clean shaven, which added character to his clear-cut features. His chest was narrow, ...
— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black
... Journey and their organization seemed to have failed. Did it fail? Scott said No. "The causes of this disaster are not due to faulty organization, but to misfortune in all risks which had to be undertaken." Nine times out of ten, says the meteorologist, he would have come through: but he struck the tenth. "We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint." No better epitaph ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
... the Colonel. "By George, I think we are going to come through all right. The Gippy Camel Corps ...
— The Tragedy of The Korosko • Arthur Conan Doyle
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