"For love or money" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beat is gone," said Bet, mournfully—"there ain't another to be had for love or money like that what mother bought for ...
— A Girl of the People • L. T. Meade
... is," replied Jack. "The whole South is here and there's not a room to be had for love or money. Food is getting dear, too, they say, and the stranger within the gates has the best of everything." He stopped short and laughed from sheer surprise ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... might cry as the girl had. But the unsentimental hilarity all around saved him and brought him through without a stain on his behavior. Only he could not bolt—he could not get a moment to himself for love or money. It was for love he wanted it. He must find her—he could not wait now. But he had to wait. He had to go into the country to dinner with them all and be lionized and made speeches at, and made fun of, ...
— The Courage of the Commonplace • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... and he began scratching the thick, dark curls, almost negro-like, that covered his head and hung over his broad brown temples. "Why, I never thought anything like that, Master Waller. Why, I wouldn't go and see a man shot nor hung for love or money! I only thought about that chap as being a spy as had come here to steal the crown; and it seemed to me, as you found him, that it'd be about fair if you and me went snacks with the reward. Look here, my lad, I'll get my old weskit covered ...
— The New Forest Spy • George Manville Fenn
... pretty straight tip that, as soon as my back is turned, he cuts indoors and spends most of his day whanging at that disreputable old violin of his. And when Rodney Hade comes over here. I can't get a lick of work out of Roke, for love or money. Hade is one of the best amateur violinists in America, and he's daft on playing. He drops in here. every now and then—he has an interest with me in the groves—and as soon as he catches sight of Roke's violin. he starts playing it. That means no more work ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
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