"Stay on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that moment, and he picked up the magazine, heading for his cabin. He'd ignored previous summons on the thin excuse of not feeling well. He had no desire to talk with Earthmen. It was bad enough to take their charity back to Earth and to have to stay on the planet until he could sign on with the Outer Federation. His memories were ugly enough, without having ...
— Victory • Lester del Rey
... the child. "But tell me, how will it come about? for now I am only a little child, and the crown would hardly stay on my curls." ...
— The Silver Crown - Another Book of Fables • Laura E. Richards
... too." The Aurora was one of Withrow's fleet and we were bound to beat her. I had hardly time to leap into the dory after Clancy, and we were off, with nobody left aboard but Hurd to the mast-head and the cook, who was to stay on deck and sail ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
... she ever known, except the pale, girlish-looking mother who had died soon after they had come to London. The elderly landlady had let her stay on, helping in the work of the house; and when even this last refuge had failed her, well-meaning folk had interested themselves and secured her employment. It was light and fairly well paid, but there were objections to it, so he gathered, more from her halting silences than from what ...
— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome
... be induced, you know, if sufficiently pressed, to stay on for supper," he hinted. For one Northern born, young Mr. Harvey Winslow was fast learning the hospitable customs of the town of ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
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