"Or so" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... warm evening, and it was restful to lie there, gazing through the trees at the glowing west, which was by slow degrees paling. The time had gone rapidly by during the last two hours or so, and it suddenly occurred to him in a dull, hazy way that the evening meal, a kind of high tea, would be about ready now at the little manor; that Aunt Hannah would be getting up from her work to look out of the window and see if he was coming; ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn
... York Orphanage and the Foundling Hospital a few theaters and operas and a dinner or so. I have two new evening gowns and a blue and gold coat with a ...
— Dear Enemy • Jean Webster
... with my former apprehensions in all points; as, for instance, (1.) I question not but God sometimes suffers the Devil (as of late) to afflict in the shape of not only innocent but pious persons, or so delude the senses of the afflicted that they strongly conceit their hurt is from such persons, when, indeed, it is not. (2.) The improving of one afflicted to inquire by, who afflicts the others, I fear may be, and has been, unlawfully used, to Satan's great advantage. (3.) As to my writing, ...
— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham
... then so vile? Or so ungrateful, so inhuman, savage, Neither long intercourse, nor love, nor shame, Can ...
— The Comedies of Terence • Publius Terentius Afer
... continued, in a familiar and confidential tone; "but, to tell you the truth, everybody that has meddled in this St. Ronan's business is a little off the hooks—something of a tete exaltee, in plain words, a little crazy, or so; and I do not affect to be much ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
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