"Get away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been looking at him with surprise. She did not cry, for she was not afraid of the poor spider. It was of the kind that children call a 'daddy long-legs,' and Mary thought it was very funny to see it straddling over the carpet, trying to get away ...
— Aunt Fanny's Story-Book for Little Boys and Girls • Frances Elizabeth Barrow
... stopped him; he ceased trying to get away and began to struggle. It was better still; it was resistance. But he was stronger than I; though I was quicker he managed to get my by the shoulders, to force me back, and finally to upset me. Then ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint
... Mrs. Coon hurried her family away from that spot. And Fatty led them all home again. He couldn't get away from ...
— Sleepy-Time Tales: The Tale of Fatty Coon • Arthur Scott Bailey
... I told him. "Shoot, damn you! You'll get away with this, too, I suppose. Mutiny, or something. And down in that rotten soul of yours, I suppose you'll be gloating at how you made fools of us. The only man on board who was safe even from a lottery, and we couldn't see it. Jenny, I hope ...
— Let'em Breathe Space • Lester del Rey
... "But behold a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven, and cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches; shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches!" A blow from an unthought-of quarter, one of those terrible accidents which peculiarly mark the hand of Omnipotence, overset your career, and laid all your fancied honours in ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
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