"Be after" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he said, "if you were fighting, as you call it, for your lawful king, why should the soldiers be after you?" ...
— The New Forest Spy • George Manville Fenn
... fact that the mirrors of bulls (which are much like those of cows, but less extensive in every direction) are reflected in their daughters. This gives rise to the dangerous custom of breeding for mirrors, rather than for milk. What the results may be after a few years it is easy to see. The mirror, being valued for its own sake—that is, because it sells the heifers—will be likely to lose its practical significance and value as a ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... "Don't you be after miscallin' me, ma'am. Sure I can get forty shillings a wake annywhere an' not be insulted by anny wan, instead av thirty here, which I do be thinkin' is not the place to shuit me"—and the indignant daughter of the Emerald Isle, a fresh-complexioned, handsome young woman, tossed ...
— Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories - 1904 • Louis Becke
... "I am not. When a man comes to my place, bullies a young girl who was about to relieve his hunger, and then boldly determines to enter my house and help himself to my property, I don't propose to fasten up any dog that may happen to be after him. If I had another dog, I'd let him loose, and give this faithful beast a rest. You can do as you please. You can come down and have it out with the dog, or you can stay up there, until I have had my dinner. Then I will drive down to the village ...
— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton
... Pete Stubbs went on, "was trying to find out where Jack had gone from Woodleigh. He didn't know that our Jack was the one he was looking for, or we don't know what he'd have done. So he had a double reason to be after him, though all he knew was that Jack might give dangerous evidence against those pals of his who were mixed ...
— The Boy Scout Automobilists - or, Jack Danby in the Woods • Robert Maitland
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