"Come away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... again will you find that the defeat—if you exult at it, when you ought to groan, accursed man!—was determined by anything that was within my control. Consider the question thus. In no place to which I was sent by you as ambassador, did I ever come away defeated by the ambassadors of Philip—not from Thessaly nor from Ambracia, not from the Illyrians nor from the Thracian princes, not from Byzantium nor from any other place, nor yet, on the last occasion, from Thebes. But every place in which his ambassadors ...
— The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 • Demosthenes
... these things, and if she would let me go with her; for I saw now that there was no dwelling, but with the danger of ruin, any longer in our town. But yet I came away with a heavy heart, not for that I was unwilling to come away, but for that so many of my relations were left behind. And I am come, with all the desire of my heart, and will go, if I may, with Christiana, unto ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... been a little hard for them both to have you come away just now. I think we will go and comfort them ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... the time of the question; after some consideration, he told her to this effect: 'Margery,' for so her name was, 'thy husband will not be at home these eighteen days; his kindred have vexed him, and he is come away from them in much anger: he is now in Carlisle, and hath but three-pence in his purse.' And when he came home he confessed all to be true, and that upon leaving his kindred he had but three-pence in his purse. I shall relate one story more, and then ...
— William Lilly's History of His Life and Times - From the Year 1602 to 1681 • William Lilly
... a child to do as well without its mother as with her. But tell me, how did yer get out? You must have come away shortly after me." ...
— Esther Waters • George Moore
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