"Set-to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... matter, Hardy? Look's if you'd had a shock! Been havin' a set-to with old Forbes, I'll bet ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... to have a look at the fellow. Used to like to see a good honest set-to myself occasionally, before I became—ahem!—governor!" And rising with alacrity, Sir Charles assisted his lady ...
— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham
... set-to one day in blowing iridescent soap bubbles from a mixture of soap and glycerine. Some of the bubbles were of about fifteen inches diameter. By carefully covering them with a bell glass, we kept them for about thirty-six hours, while they went through their changes ...
— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth
... perhaps the most disgraceful exhibition ever made by any President; but, as no evil is entirely unmixed, good has come of this, as from many others. Ambitious, unscrupulous, energetic, indefatigable, voluble, and plausible,—a political gladiator, ready for a "set-to" in any crowd,—he is beaten in his own chosen field, and stands to-day before the country as a convicted usurper, a political criminal, guilty of a bold and persistent attempt to possess himself of the legislative powers solemnly secured to Congress by the Constitution. No vindication could be ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various
... Skeptic, in tennis flannels, was lounging on the porch as she came up the steps, and scanned her critically over the racquet he still held, after a brisk set-to with the Gay Lady, who is one of my other guests. (We call her the Gay Lady because of her flower-bright face, her trick of smiling when other people frown, and because of a certain soft sparkle and glow ...
— A Court of Inquiry • Grace S. Richmond
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