"Settle down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... off for literature of all sorts (my locker is a scandal), I don't seem to be able to settle down to anything like a quiet, enjoyable read at all. Tommy Atkins never seems to realise that one cannot carry on a conversation and read a book simultaneously, or write ...
— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross
... repeated Kit. "When all around here are the old Indian trails, and the footprints left by the French explorers. I just wish I could get Billie out here for a little while. He'll settle down in some old school that thinks it is wonderful because John Smith built a camp-fire on its site once upon a time, or Pocahontas planted corn in its ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... David the next day, "before we settle down to things political tell me if you regret ...
— David Dunne - A Romance of the Middle West • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... with which Hood was connected, entailing severe loss upon him. With his accustomed probity, he refused to avail himself of any legal immunities, and resolved to meet his engagements in full eventually; but it became requisite that he should withdraw from England. He proposed to settle down in some one of the towns on the Rhine, and circumstances fixed his choice on Coblentz. A great storm which overtook him during the passage to Rotterdam told damagingly on his already feeble health. Coblentz, which he reached in March, 1835, pleased him at first; though it was not long before ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... 'Oh, Gloria, if you smoke so many cigarettes you'll lose your pretty complexion!' and 'Oh, Gloria, why don't you marry and settle down?'" ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
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