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More "Get it on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he had his arm round her waist, or as near to that position as he was destined to get it on the present occasion. She gave him her hand, and let him hold that fast, and smiled on him through her soft tears, and was gracious to him with her sweet words and pleasant looks; but she would not come forward and kiss him boldly as she had done when last they had met at ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope
... "I think I should prefer staying at home. I don't feel that I need the least pity, and don't want to get it on false pretences." ...
— Through Three Campaigns - A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti • G. A. Henty
... must needs be flattened to get it on one retina. The picture of a solid thing, although it is flattened and simplified, is not necessarily a lie. Surely, surely, in the end, by degrees, and steps, something of this sort, some such understanding, as this Utopia must come. First here, then there, single men and then groups of men ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells
... though the day was fair chiefly, with some gleams of sunshine. However, we are sheltered in a comfortable inn. My cold is not worse. If you get this scrawl to-morrow and write by return, direct to me at the post-office, Bangor, and I may get it on Monday. Say how you and Miss Wooler got home. Give my kindest and most grateful love to Miss Wooler whenever you write. On Monday, I think, we cross the Channel. No more ...
— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter
... if you didn't get it on the double yourselves. No jerks and multiple mucosities all over you. I tried it. Your strength our weakness. What's our studfee? What will you pay on the nail? You fee mendancers on the Riviera, I read. (The fleeing nymph raises a keen) Eh? I ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... it will," declared Polly, merrily; "you'll see. And when I get it on, Joey Pepper, look out and look if you don't see me sailing up to ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney
... office her most absorbing comfort was in the luxury of mourning—passion in black, even to the black-edged face-veil.... Though she was human enough to realize that with her fair hair she looked rather well in mourning, and shrewd enough to get it on ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis
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