"Go under" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that a noble yearning for justice and a lofty power of devotion were my two impelling principles. But now, when I saw myself sprung of low birth, and the father of my worship base-born, down fell all my arduous castles, and I craved to go under ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... world regards the Express as utterly without excuse for existence. It says, and truly, that a wishy-washy sheet such as it, with its devitalized, strained, and bolted reports of the world's vivid happenings, deserves to go under from sheer lack of interest. The experiment has been tried before, and has signally failed. Money alone can keep your paper alive. But, say the ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... 19, 1862. Dear ——: I think you will not be greatly astonished when I tell you that I am off for Port Royal next week. I go under the auspices of the Educational Commission to make myself generally useful in whatever way I can, in reducing some amount of order and industry from the mass of eight or ten thousand contrabands now within our lines there. Boston is wide awake on the subject, and I am determined ...
— Letters from Port Royal - Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) • Various
... whale, sir," replied the captain. "A whale don't go under water like that when she sounds. Down goes her head, and she throws her ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
... to acknowledge myself indebted to the well-known submarine engineers Messrs. Siebe and Gorman, and Messrs. Heinke and Davis, of London, for much valuable information; and to Messrs. Denayrouze, of Paris, for permitting me to go under water in one of their diving-dresses. Also—among many others—to Captain John Hewat, formerly Commander in the service of the Rajah of Sarawak, for much interesting material respecting the pirates of the ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
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