"To it" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with the frontiersmen, Lukins, Sanderson, and Jadwin, bringing up on either side. Back of these came the pack-horses with their loads, looked after by Dave and Henry, and further to the rear were the Indians under White Buffalo. All told the party made quite an imposing appearance, and if put to it could have offered considerable opposition to any enemy ...
— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer
... donor had exhausted her housewife's skill. The servants, in honour of General Stuart's presence, had chosen this to grace the centre of the board. As his eye fell upon it, he paused, and with mock gravity pointed to it, saying, "There, gentlemen! If that is not the crowning evidence of our host's sporting tastes. He even has his favourite game-cock stamped on his butter!" The dinner, of course, began with great laughter, in which Jackson joined, with ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson
... and silent night! A thousand bells ring out, and throw Their joyous peals abroad, and smite The darkness—charmed and holy now! The night that erst no name had worn, To it a happy name is given; For in that stable lay, new-born, The peaceful prince of earth and heaven, In ...
— A Handbook for Latin Clubs • Various
... anxious to know why that C-shaped piece should try to straighten itself out when heat is applied to it?" ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay
... into the shade because Paine's "Rights of Man," written for the same purpose, was so much more startling in its wholesale condemnation of government that the principal attention of the public was drawn to it. ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft • Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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