"Get rid of" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bend forward and walk almost double to avoid having his eyes scratched by them. At last, in the middle of a circle of junipers, he found a tolerably free space which he thought would do. The ground, however, was set thick with sharp uncomfortable stones, and the first thing needed was to get rid of them. ...
— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge
... letters, written by the people they professed to be written by. Still Scotch marriage law was a damned business—one never knew. He hoped it was all right; but if she did hate him as poisonously as she said, if she did really want to get rid of him, he might perhaps be able to ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the invitations of the Greeks in Sicily, who begged him to come to their assistance against the Carthaginians. It was necessary, however, first to suspend hostilities with the Romans, who were likewise anxious to get rid of so formidable an opponent, that they might complete the subjugation of Southern Italy without farther interruption. When both parties had the same wishes it was not difficult to find a fair pretext for bringing the war to a conclusion. This was afforded ...
— A Smaller History of Rome • William Smith and Eugene Lawrence
... get rid of you. I was to put you out of the way for him, at a price, and a great price, too. But it was not intended, so it seems, that I ...
— The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis • Joseph A. Altsheler
... direction. Thus faith, like light, should be straight, RADIATE ON EVERY SIDE, AND BEND TO ALL THE WANTS OF OUR BRETHREN. You have abolished the mass, in conformity, you say, to Scripture. You were right to get rid of it. But how did you accomplish that work? What order—what decency did you observe? You should have offered up fervent prayers to God, and obtained the sanction of the legal authorities for what you proposed doing; then might every man have acknowledged that the work was ...
— Count Ulrich of Lindburg - A Tale of the Reformation in Germany • W.H.G. Kingston
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