"Strike off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the workshop we might take up the methods of planting our vegetables. Then if any fellow has worked out a table, Peter, the star printer, may strike off copies for all of us," began Jay, after calling the meeting to order. "I'd be glad to hear from any of you fellows who have done anything ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw
... Damian, arising and placing his foot upon the stool, that the warder might more easily strike off the last ring by which he was encumbered,—"I have heard of such things as this—I have heard of beings who, with seeming gravity of word and aspect—with subtle counsels, artfully applied to the frailties of human nature—have haunted the cells of ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott
... calmly. "They can't see us after dark, and if we can strike off on another trail we may throw them off our track. Surely we'll ...
— Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground • Victor Appleton
... "I am of complexion somewhat like Peter. I could strike off the ear of Malchus an' I caught him laying hands on my Master (yea, I know not if I should stay at the ear); and it had been much had I kept that sword off the High Priest himself. Ay, though I had been ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt
... laughed, and Hillyard went on. "From the top of the hill I would strike off to the west, and see the morning break over London. In summer that was wonderful! The Houses of Parliament. St Paul's like a silver bubble rising out of the mist, then, as the mist cleared over the river, a London clean and all silver in the morning ...
— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason
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