"Get going" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... take, Uncle Amazon?" Louise asked as he halted. Sometimes he required a little urging to "get going." But ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper
... "Oh, I don't! I don't pay any attention to what she says, except when she's around where I am, and that's not so often you could notice it much! Saunders isn't that kind! Saunders is a gay old bird, I tell you! We have some times together when we get going!" ...
— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield
... out. About half the people made a mad rush for the Easts and the other half rushes for the Stars, and there's only six policemen there. But the sergeant—say, my Pa knows him well—he's the wise guy. He lets 'em all get going and you couldn't see anything but people shovin' and crowdin' and hittin'. And then he chases for the caretaker of the park where the flats are an' gets two lines of hose fixed on a hydrant and two cops a holdin' the ...
— William Adolphus Turnpike • William Banks
... great outside, "and a little house—and we're well and strong, and all the children doing fine at school—and we can, easy as not, put a mortgage on the house, for two or three thousand. We'd like it fine if you'd take it, until you get going again." ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... he was perhaps more appreciative than I was of the discipline of the Edison Construction Department, and thought it would be well for us to wait until the morning of the fourth before we started up. I said we were sent over to get going, and insisted on starting up on the night of the third. We had an Armington & Sims engine with sight-feed oiler. I had never seen one, and did not know how it worked, with the result that we soon burned up the babbitt metal in the bearings ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin |
