"Dash off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been any trouble for me at all to dash off an idea, though of course they would have to be touched up by the editors a little before they could ...
— Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers • Don Marquis
... with his hat upon his head, would dash off a polka, after placing his lighted cigar upon the edge of the piano. These fast fellows frightened Amedee a little, as he had ...
— A Romance of Youth, Complete • Francois Coppee
... Instantly he wheeled to dash off at right angles. I braced myself with the rope around my hip and brought him to a sudden stand. Rearing and struggling, he fought for his liberty while Nobs, panting and with lolling tongue, came and threw himself down near me. He seemed to know that ...
— The People that Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... foot; nevertheless he walked on hastily, his eyes on the ground. The footsteps of his captors sounded behind him, and he tried to edge towards the ravine. When nearly above the opening of the cavern he would, he thought, swerve inland, and dash off as fast as he was able. Then they would have to fire at him; we would be sure to hear the shots, the warning would be clear... and suddenly, looking up, he saw that a small band of Lugarenos, having just ascended the brow of the upland, were coming to meet him. Now ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... meal by the young women. The scattering of the meal is accompanied by a shower of spittle from the spectators, who are stationed on, convenient roofs and ladders viewing the ceremony. Fleet runners now catch up the snakes in handfuls and dash off in an exciting race over the mesa and down rocky trails to the plains below where the snakes are returned unharmed to their ...
— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk
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