"Hang on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the power to squander outside of our own territory that which is much needed in his country. And the thousands in money which he sends to Europe for something to hang on his walls would pay for a much needed improvement in some city or town in the country where ...
— Confiscation, An Outline • William Greenwood
... and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen, to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed? Farewell! This is a glorious summer. I often climb into the trees in Charlotte's orchard, and shake down the pears that hang on the highest branches. She stands below, and catches them as ...
— The Sorrows of Young Werther • J.W. von Goethe
... and disperse some cavalry, vaguely reported to be moving about somewhere in that quarter, a constant menace to the long trains from New Iberia. In fact Mouton, with the Texans, was now on the prairie, beyond the Calcasieu eighty miles away, in good position to retreat to Texas or to hang on the flank and rear of the Union army, as circumstances might suggest. On the 26th of April Paine marched sixteen miles to the Plaquemine Brule, and on the following day sent four companies on horseback twenty miles ...
— History of the Nineteenth Army Corps • Richard Biddle Irwin
... hees tail upon de air, no wonder she was scare! But she hang on lak de winter on T'ree Reever. Cryin' out, "Please hol' me tight, or I'm comin' dead to-night, An' ma poor old moder dear, I got to ...
— Humour of the North • Lawrence J. Burpee
... lamp he recognized the features of Mart Wallen's four-year old Kitty. A sympathetic crowd had gathered. A young man poked a silk-hatted head from the carriage-window, and, with a face nearly the color of the Queen chrysanthemum in the lapel of his coat, besought Parks to hang on to his horses. A surly voice in the crowd said, "Damn your horses, and you too! If it hadn't been for this gentleman you'd have killed a dozen of these kids." Forrest's head was beginning to swim, but he took the ...
— A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike • Charles King
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