"Go after" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... envy. For the correspondents in the greatest of all wars the pickings had been meagre. "You are to be congratulated," I said. He brushed aside my congratulations. "For what?" he demanded. "I didn't go after the stories; they came to me. The things I saw I had to see. Couldn't get away from them. I've been with the British, serving in the R.A.M.C. Been hospital steward, stretcher bearer, ambulance driver. I've been sixteen months at the front, and all the time on the firing-line. I was in ...
— The Deserter • Richard Harding Davis
... I don't. Young sir, caper not too confidently in your coat of many colours! If you flout me once too often I may go after you, as a Mohawk follows a scalp too often flaunted by the head ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... sixteen years old," continued Rachel. "Why, he'll need somebody to take care of him. Most likely you'll have to go after him." ...
— Jack's Ward • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... about the temple of Hera; and Pausanias, seeing that they were retiring from the camp, gave the word to the Lacedemonians also to take up their arms and go after the others who were preceding them, supposing that these were going to the place to which they had agreed to go. Then, when all the other commanders were ready to obey Pausanias, Amompharetos the son of Poliades, the commander of the Pitanate division, ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 2 (of 2) • Herodotus
... light thing, after that, to pick myself up and, spitting the dust from my mouth, go after him. But I did. He never turned as I came up behind, or heeded me till I stood before ...
— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed
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