"Clear away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... can't refuse to take her! See, I'll carry her as far as the door so that Jane can take her, and then I 'll go clear away and never come near her again. You 'll have her christened, won't you? I 've been thinking all the weary way what she should be called, and I thought, unless you had a fancy for any other name' (a little stifled sigh at the thought of how dear one ...
— Zoe • Evelyn Whitaker
... the nearest stairs; I have a boat ready there, and we will slip down the river to a ship I wot of that lies near Woolwich. I own,' he went on, 'it's a mighty risk to run, with Andrew in such a feeble case; yet I see no better way.' And in hasty words he told us how poor was our chance of getting clear away from the plague-stricken city ...
— Andrew Golding - A Tale of the Great Plague • Anne E. Keeling
... thorough search, but I'm sorry to say it was no use. She's left Hoboken—moved clear away, and nobody seems to ...
— Bunner Sisters • Edith Wharton
... speak. Sun of the 31st May, is this to be a second day-spring? Gamelin waits and hopes. His mind is made up then! Robespierre is to drag from the benches they dishonour these legislators more guilty than the federalists, more dangerous than Danton.... No! not yet. "I cannot," he says, "resolve to clear away entirely the veil that hides ...
— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France
... grieving that the precious fruit should have become so worthless, determined to plant the good tree once more in the garden. He did not try to clear away a spot for it amid the old, overgrown parts of the land, but he called upon certain workers to go to a distant part of the garden where nothing had been planted for a long time, and there prepare the ground for ...
— A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Nephi Anderson
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