"Leave alone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through the camps of the whole of the companies, John assembled the leaders round him, and held a council as to future operations. It was agreed that it would be best to leave alone, for the present, the legion at Scythopolis; for rumors of the gathering would almost certainly have reached that city, and the Romans might be on their guard against attack. It was resolved, therefore, to cross the Jordan ...
— For the Temple - A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem • G. A. Henty
... safe person to leave alone in the house. Once his mother went to church and told him to make some porridge for his little sister. Giufa made a great kettle of boiling porridge and fed it to the poor child and burned her ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... beloved, do not mention anything else; for except for her and my cup of wine, I care for none." We are admonished to leave alone idle talk on how and why ("Im Fruehlingsthau," p. 261), for as Hafid says (H. 487. 11): "Our existence is an enigma, whereof the investigation is fraud and fable." The tavern is celebrated with as much enthusiasm (e.g. "Das Weinhaus," p. 290) as the [Arabic] to which Hafid was destined ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... risks to take and of what risks to leave alone constitutes expertness in this line of business. Seldom can the transaction be absolutely closed at both ends and any substantial profit be made. Most of the time the correctness of the bond expert's judgment as to how he can sell somewhere else what he has bought, is what determines ...
— Elements of Foreign Exchange - A Foreign Exchange Primer • Franklin Escher
... the power of suggestion, say even as a mere money-making power, to leave alone other misapplications of it, is a feature which is taking hold, so to say, of certain sections of the public who do not realise a higher platform in these things. It is deplorable that it should be so, but it is in the nature of things unavoidable. You have a power ...
— The Hidden Power - And Other Papers upon Mental Science • Thomas Troward
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