"Sneak away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his bottom clo'ing And his ginger head topper gay. Then his other toggery stowing, [16] Tol lol, etc. All with the swag I sneak away. [17] ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... of the community directly. All such efforts tend to the welfare of the state. All its members reap benefit from them. He who does not help and encourage them is as mean as the man who would go to an hotel and take its entertainment, and then sneak away without paying the reckoning. Whatever we can do to benefit society benefits ourselves, and in throwing ourselves heart and soul into any of those enterprises that benefit society we are discharging in a very special way the duties ...
— Life and Conduct • J. Cameron Lees
... a kind of duty that calls for you to sneak away in this fashion, put on citizen's clothes, and sink your uniform in the bay?" demanded Private Overton mockingly. "If you tell me that, Corporal, I don't ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... a chance on earth," was the answer. "He'd dodge it like a flash of lightning. Then he'd take alarm and make a quick sneak away from here. After we get him hooked, we can hold him steady and I'll have a chance to ...
— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport
... bowl He clung, and cheer'd the sadness of his soul; For though a man may not have much to fear, Yet death looks ugly when the view is near: - 'I go,' he said, 'but still my friends shall say, 'Twas as a man—I did not sneak away; An honest life with worthy souls I've spent, - Come, fill my glass;' he took it and he went. "Poor Dolly Murray!—I might live to see My hundredth year, but no such lass as she. Easy by nature, in her humour gay, She chose her comforts, ratafia ...
— The Borough • George Crabbe |
