"Go for" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lakes so much more numerous, that people can walk on the hard-frozen surface readily. Therefore the peasantry—except in certain districts—do not use ski so much as a necessity, as for pleasure and sport. The upper classes go on skidor as constantly as they skate. They get up competitions; they go for whole days' expeditions into the country, and, on their "wooden shoon," enjoy themselves ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
... purchase a place for myself—or to go home. These are questions about which I feel the want of some friend to consult with. I have no one to whom I can go for advice. If I wish to be self-denying, one would say at home is the best, the largest field for my activity. This may be true in one sense. But is it wise to go where there are the most difficulties to overcome? Would it not be better ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott
... footstep in the corridor. Feverishly he had watched the face of the warder who had brought him food. Like one who had hoped against hope, he had at stated times scanned the faces of other prisoners when he had been allowed to go for exercise into the prison yard. But he heard nothing, saw nothing which could ...
— The Day of Judgment • Joseph Hocking
... in any doubt, you know where to go for guidance, don't you?" whispered my mother, who was ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... said quietly. "The next train will not go for an hour and a quarter. There is more time than I supposed." Then, with as much gentleness as he could command, he added: "Lloyd, you are ...
— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris
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