"Have it off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the money with me," he added, tapping his pocket—"if you will sign acknowledgment that you have received your full share of your father's estate. It is a mere form, but I want to wind the whole business up and have it off my hands." ...
— Mark Mason's Victory • Horatio Alger
... say now, and have it off my mind, that it has always struck me, that during those peaceful days, when our greatest worry was a hot march, we didn't know when we were well off, and that it wanted the troubles to come before we could see what good qualities there were in other people. Little trifling things ...
— Begumbagh - A Tale of the Indian Mutiny • George Manville Fenn
... in Ed Meyers, disregarding the more intimate family details. "You two get together and fix things up in shape; then you can sign up and have it off your mind so you can ...
— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber
... my dears," said she, trying to smile, "I shall be better now this is done, and I have it off my mind." They looked at her in anxious interrogation, and she smiled outright with lip and eye. "You will seal that letter with a good will, Henrietta," she said. "It is to ask Uncle Geoffrey to make ...
— Henrietta's Wish • Charlotte M. Yonge |
