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"Give or take" Quotes from Famous Books

... earth. By referring to Genesis and finding out precisely what the Creator did on the morning of the first day, the writer contrived to bring his calculation of the age of the earth and everything in the world to a precision of six hours, give or take,—a somewhat closer schedule than that made by the Tennessee river boats coming ...

— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling

... one day, seems like it ought to be about a week ago, give or take a couple of days. Anyway, I remember ...

— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton

... Give or take some, the plow pan of an acre weighs about two million pounds. The plow pan is that seven inches of topsoil that is flipped over by a moldboard plow, the seven inches where most biological activity occurs, where virtually all of the soil's organic matter resides. Two million pounds equals one thousand ...

— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... "No, I hadn't got any crick, but I had proud and lofty emotions on the inside of my soul that no man could give or take away." ...

— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley

... prayers: but the wise man need copy neither, and fear neither the silence nor the laughter of the mighty mother Earth, if he will be but wise, and hear her tell him, alike in both - "Why call me mother? Why ask me for knowledge which I cannot teach, peace which I cannot give or take away? I am only your foster-mother and your nurse - and I have not been an unkindly one. But you are God's children, and not mine. Ask Him. I can amuse you with my songs; but they are but a nurse's lullaby to the weary flesh. I can awe you with my silence; but my silence is only my just humility, ...

— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley