"Pitch into" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... like it! That's the boy, see him kick, he hits out with his fists like a good one. Now then, young Brooke, pitch into a man of your own size, will you?" cried Laurie, delighted with a poke in the face from a tiny fist, ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... stand that, Charley," said Danny Rugg, who was close at hand. "I'd pitch into him if I ...
— The Bobbsey Twins - Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out • Laura Lee Hope
... not be found out when we had not told a soul. Did you ever see such a funk as the Spaniards were all in, and after all their bragging and the airs that they had given themselves. Our men were so savage at their cowardice, that I believe they would have liked nothing better than an order to pitch into them. And didn't the women yell and howl? It is the best lark we have ...
— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty
... disposed, as he will presently declare to a fellow- gentleman in waiting, "to pitch into the young man"; but his instructions are positive. Therefore he sulkily supposes that the young man must come up into the library. There he leaves the young man in a large room, not over-light, while he makes report ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... you make it convenient to pitch into me, and give me a most tremenjious blowin' up, and call me a lot of hard names afore all hands, to-morrow, some time in the second dog-watch, if I was to give you an ...
— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" • Harry Collingwood
... the coachman sat expecting some one to appear from the shop, and longing to pitch into the 'camstary' horse, but not daring to lift his whip beyond its natural angle. No one came. All at once Shargar knew ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... I wish I could make him pitch into somebody or something. Nothing would do the beggar so much good, just now, as to get himself into a regular scrape. It would act like a shower-bath, wake him up, and purge ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various
... the image of its shame and its crime, wander onward through places where live happy people," said a second priest; and he poured another ladle of burning pitch into ...
— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus
... time had got up considerably, and the schooner began to pitch into it as she ran before the wind. The corvette at first came on rather more steadily, but she likewise soon began to feel the effects of the troubled water; and away we both went, plunging our bows into the sea as we dashed rapidly onward. I could not help feeling that the ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston
... in the street, he looked up at the sky. "Is there a new moon?" he asked himself, gravely. "Am I cracked? Why did I pitch into that chap? If I'm not careful, I shall get myself into trouble to-day. I wonder if Jack Seymour will lend me enough to take me to South Africa? They say that war is brewing there. That is what I want—gore, bomb-shells, more gore. If I stay ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy |
