"Give chase" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Then something happened which decidedly bettered the chances of the fugitive: the mounted orderly felt called upon to give chase. He set his horse to a gallop and dashed ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... up at him, "why do you tarry? There will be time enough for me, as the knaves will give chase to you ...
— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper
... altogether looked like a city of the dead: not a soul appeared in sight, except one solitary old woman, who was slowly traversing the weary waste of sands, and all around was still and silent as the grave. In order to gain some intelligence of our whereabouts, I was obliged to give chase to this only inhabitant, and from her I discovered, that to reach Ladak — a green-looking speck which she pointed out in the far distance — we had to cross the desert sands, and still hold on our course for several miles. The sun was by this time high ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... loaded and triced up under the thwarts, ready for immediate service, and a bright look-out was to be kept on the channel, in both directions. If the natives attempted the smallest communication with the mainland, the whale-boat was to give chase immediately, and either intercept and capture the canoes, or compel them to ...
— Australian Search Party • Charles Henry Eden
... prepared to give chase. The evidence was, indeed, though circumstantial, so convincing, that but little argument was needed to show the shepherd's guests that after what they had seen it would look very much like connivance if they did not instantly pursue the unhappy third stranger, who could not as yet have gone more ...
— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy
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