"Let on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... high ground? I can't imagine any one less likely to be amenable to moral suasion, unless of course you're much more intimate with him than you ever let on to me. Perhaps you are," Rowsley added. "He ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde
... sot down in the pit, took out my spectacles & commenced peroosin the evenin's bill. The awjince was all-fired large & the boxes was full of the elitty of New York. Several opery glasses was leveld at me by Gothum's farest darters, but I didn't let on as tho I noticed it, tho mebby I did take out my sixteen-dollar silver watch & brandish it round more than was necessary. But the best of us has our weaknesses & if a man has gewelry let him show it. As I was peroosin the bill a grave young man who sot near me axed me ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne
... hand. "It 'ud be a quare thing," said a peasant to his neighbour in the crowd, "if the rebels would come out and hould a meetin' agin us on yon hill." "What matter if they would," was the reply, "wouldn't we let on that we won't have it? an' if that wouldn't do them, isn't there hundreds o' King James's men at the bottom o' the lough, an' there's plenty o' room yet." It was not spoken in jest, but in grim conviction that the issue of 1689 was the issue of 1912, and that ...
— Ulster's Stand For Union • Ronald McNeill
... harder hit than I've ever let on, dear girl. And I'm going to make you very happy. ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... said! You shan't make out That it was any way but what it was. Did she let on by any word she ...
— Mountain Interval • Robert Frost
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