"Get ahead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at present? Better wait till night, and then I know half a dozen coves what will strike for you. We can easily get ahead and wait for you near ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... chattering over our heads all day and the mosquitoes serenading us at night. Talk about birds, there was a whole menagerie of them and their colors beat the handkerchiefs that these greasers wear around their throats and you can't get ahead ...
— Frontier Boys on the Coast - or in the Pirate's Power • Capt. Wyn Roosevelt
... you one thing, Dolly. Don't study and practise to get ahead of somebody else; but to ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... he had been noticing of late that his ideas came to him a little slowly. Not but what he had plenty of them, but they seemed disposed to crowd one another; so that whenever there was any thing to be said in a hurry, Ford was sure to get ahead of him, and sometimes ...
— Dab Kinzer - A Story of a Growing Boy • William O. Stoddard
... a picture of busy street-life in a great city. Everybody is in a hurry and everybody wishes to get ahead. The man at the left has loaded his wagon so high that he finds it hard to hold the reins. Do you see the cunning little dog in the pony-cart? He means to see all there ...
— Pages for Laughing Eyes • Unknown
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