"Let loose" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is it possible that you come here to interpret to us the Holy Bible and do not recognize the language in which that blessed book was written? Sir, do you dare to call the very words of the Almighty 'gibberish?' '' At this all was let loose; some students put asafetida on the stove; others threw pigeon-shot against the ceiling and windows, making a most appalling din, and one wretch put in deadly work with a syringe thrust through the canvas representation of the man of brass with feet ...
— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White
... Imperial Government (Berlin) has not required that such a final offer should be submitted to it for approval before its presentation to Serbia. To-day nothing remains for us but to declare: 'We are not bound by any alliance to support wars let loose by ...
— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith
... ambition was profit, not equity, and whose dealings with other men were not tempered by the amenities of the gentleman but were sharpened by the necessities of gain. It was upon such a class, new in the economic world and endowed with astounding power, that Adam Smith's new formularies of freedom were let loose. ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth
... to his room at an early hour under the plea of weariness. He was, as a matter of fact, worn out by the flood of fears and anxieties that Valerie's one reckless sentence had let loose upon him. So long was it since he had placed these weightier matters of diplomacy and government in other hands, that the renewed sense of responsibility and the imminent need for action seemed to be crushing in his brain. But the instinct of self-preservation, backed by ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
... Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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