"See to it" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scabbard, sat nursing it on his knees without a single look upwards. Karain, suddenly very calm, reseated himself with dignity. We gave up remonstrating after this, and let him go his way to an honourable disaster. All we could do for him was to see to it that the powder was good for the money and the rifles serviceable, ...
— Tales of Unrest • Joseph Conrad
... fifty dollars a month for rural teachers is altogether too low. This must be raised fifty, if not one hundred per cent, in order that a beginning may be made in the solution of the rural school problem. Where $50 a month seems to be the going wage, if school boards would offer $75 and then see to it that the persons whom they hire are efficient, an attempt at the solution of the problem in that district or neighborhood would be made. Is it possible that any good, strong, educated, and cultured person can be secured for ...
— Rural Life and the Rural School • Joseph Kennedy
... TRYGAEUS. I'll see to it. Good-bye! (To the Athenians.) You, for love of whom I brave these dangers, do ye neither let wind nor go to stool for the space of three days, for, if, while cleaving the air, my steed should scent anything, he would fling me head foremost from the summit ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
... to bind you, though," answered Colonel Faversham. "I would see to it we had a good time. There's no wish of yours that shouldn't ...
— Enter Bridget • Thomas Cobb
... looked up at Ethel, then at the infant; "Yes," he said, "at once." Then added feebly and languidly, "Some one must see to it." ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
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