"Count on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "You may count on my discretion," returned the young man, "and I fancy Uncle Christopher will be too proud to ask questions. ...
— Till the Clock Stops • John Joy Bell
... or blow low," said the mate, placing himself at Rose's side on the trunk, which formed the usual seat for those who could presume to take the liberty of sitting down on the quarter-deck. "It's a habit with him, and we can count on it, ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... Swedes disliked her change of religion. She was surrounded by men of letters, with whom she amused herself, and she took to herself a lover, the Marquis Monaldeschi. She thought that at last she had really found her true affinity, while Monaldeschi believed that he could count on ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr
... the subject. The next day an imperial decree proclaimed a state of war and assured French people in China that if they refrained from taking part in any hostile act they might remain in their places, and count on full protection. Nobly did the government of the day redeem its pledge. [Page 170] Not a missionary was molested in the interior; and two French professors belonging to my own faculty were permitted to go on with the ...
— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin
... Count on the steps he bowed and smiled, and then went at once into the house, pushing the hall door to after him, but not actually ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
|
