"Take on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... again in his manner. "But I don't feel like cross-questioning her. You can understand that. You'll have to take on that end, really." ...
— The Winning Clue • James Hay, Jr.
... Admiral's two sons, Diego and Ferdinand, were present, must have been one of the earliest recollections of the younger boy, then just five years of age.[557] Again Columbus stopped at the Canary islands, this time to take on board goats and sheep, pigs and fowls, for he had been struck by the absence of all such animals on the coasts which he had visited.[558] Seeds of melons, oranges, and lemons were also taken. On the 7th of October the ships weighed anchor, heading a trifle ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske
... I want you to take on Sloppy Chunks, too, for a little while. Mr. Symes has had to ...
— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne
... see that you are laughing at me. Poor Jack, he was something like a "philosophical proposition" which I had never very thoroughly analysed. One thing, however, begins to grow perfectly clear: my home is no place for him; he is only a shadow in my life and needs to take on substance. Well, I thought at last I had solved the problem—or at least that O'Meara had solved it for me; but here too I was disappointed. Really, you must help me out of ...
— The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance • Paul Elmer More
... 'No,' he says, 'I can't, more's the pity. They're all wanted to-morrow, and I've sent them on to the Castle. Why, Polly, lass, what's come to you? I've never known you take on ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
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