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"Sit tight" Quotes from Famous Books

... At least, we did. Also a maid. But maids, I understand, are greatly diminished. There appear to have been tragedies in Bainbridge. Have you eaten sufficient bacon to listen calmly to an extract from Aunt Caroline's last? Sit tight, then— ...

— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... natural as breathing," she said. "I couldn't forget it any more than I could forget how to walk, or to swim. Sit tight. I am going to step on the gas for a bit, ...

— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... eyes shut, you had only to continue with your eyes open. Time was the only thing that could defeat one. If you had no time, he admitted, you were at a dead wall. In this case he judged there would be time, because O'Brien, warned already, would sit tight for a few days, being sure to get hold of us directly the Lion came into port. It was only if the Lion failed to turn up within a reasonable term in Havana, that he would take fright, and take measures to hunt her up at ...

— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

Words linked to "Sit tight" : stay, remain, rest