"Deadbeat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... need have you to want him out of your way, now Lord John has come over to your side? You have the thing at a dead beat. ...
— The Parent's Assistant • Maria Edgeworth
... vigorous now as on the morning when the chase began. Up and down he went rounding up the herd and urging them on by voice and example to escape. But they were played out. The old white mare that had been such help in sighting them at night, had dropped out hours ago, dead beat. The half-bloods seemed to be losing all fear of the horsemen, the band was clearly in Jo's power. But the one who was the prize of all the hunt seemed just as far as ...
— Wild Animals I Have Known • Ernest Thompson Seton
... as from any fear of the enemy. We walked twenty miles last night from Union Grove to the river; then I walked to the boat, back to the farm, and then back to the boat again—that's three more miles—and we have gone another twenty now. I am pretty nearly dead beat, I can tell you." ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty
... crashed overside. I cannot tell whether the lightning struck and split it, or whether, already blasted by the explosion, it had stood upright for those few seconds until a heave of the swell snapped the charred stays and released it. Nay, even the dead beat of the ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... "You would for a dead beat, though," suggested the devoted servant, who by virtue of five years of service knew whereof he spoke, "if he'd smashed his ...
— Red Pepper's Patients - With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular • Grace S. Richmond
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