"On and off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through Henry, into whose hands had fallen a letter in Cora's handwriting, bearing the Bellair postmark, and addressed to Lucian Davlin, who, so Henry said, "went down, on and off," and always appeared satisfied with the result ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... Acquaintance.—Attention may be directed, too, to the need of deliberately cultivating friendships and acquaintances, not only on these "dark runs," but wherever one goes—both on and off duty. In the stores, along the street, on the cars, at the club, the alert reporter gathers many an important news item. The merchant, the cabman, the preacher, the barkeeper, the patrolman, the thug, the club-man, the porter, all make valuable acquaintances, as they are ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... real logs," said he, and thought he should never tire of turning them on and off and making them sparkle and ...
— Rollo in Society - A Guide for Youth • George S. Chappell
... throw her into ecstasies. She would have Sophie to look over all her "toilettes," as she called frocks; to furbish up any that were "passees," and to air and arrange the new. For herself, she did nothing but caper about in the front chambers, jump on and off the bedsteads, and lie on the mattresses and piled-up bolsters and pillows before the enormous fires roaring in the chimneys. From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte
... enclosure of stone dykes, within which the black tents were pitched. The dogs were of immense size, and ragged, like the yaks, from their winter coat hanging to their flanks in great masses; each was chained near a large stone, on and off which he leapt as he gave tongue; they are very savage, but great cowards, and ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
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