"Eat out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... till he thought Mac was his best friend. He was ready to eat out of his hand. So Mac works him up to sign a contract—before witnesses too; trust Mac for that—exchanging his half-interest in the claim for five hundred dollars in cash and Mac's no-'count lease on Frenchman Creek. Inside of a week Mac and Strong struck a big pay streak. ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... ask," whispered Carr, "is money and advertisement. If they knew I was a reporter, they'd eat out of my hand. The tall man calls himself Lighthouse Harry. He once kept a lighthouse on the Florida coast, and that's as near to the sea as he ever got. The other one is a daredevil calling himself Colonel Beamish. He says he's an English officer, ...
— The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys • Richard Harding Davis
... him, and gave him another spoon, and said: 'Master Charles, we will eat together, for there will be enough for both of us.' The tears came into Charles's eyes, and he whispered: 'Dear Giles, you are very good.' So these boys eat out of the same porringer, and broke of the ...
— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas
... out of a barn and ran up to Jackson, that he might stroke and play with him; but he was full of tricks, and when Charles or Helen went near him he strove to butt them with his young horns. He would not eat out of their hands, but he took all that Jackson gave him. In the same barn that the lamb came out of, were a goat and two young kids. The goat, the kids, the lamb, the calves, all were fond of Jackson, for he had a kind heart and would not ...
— The Bad Family and Other Stories • Mrs. Fenwick
... him out to the barn and showed him the big pewter bowl the cats eat out of and he said, 'I'll give you fifty ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers
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