"Count on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hot as a furnace. The cooling rain was grateful. The loss of his grip and things would be inconvenient, not serious. He began running again. Then he walked as fast as he could. He was more and more convinced that those Germans would count on his going back for his belongings. They would not imagine that a dollar American would leave his possessions and hoof it to the Dutch Limberg ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry
... dissatisfied with her lot, she was now not only fortified against indigence, but could count on a life of comfort and ease. She established herself in a snug villa down Brompton way—a small house with a pretty garden, of the kind now fast disappearing from what was then a near suburb of the town. It was ...
— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths
... "You can count on me for my half. Shake hands on the bargain!" cried Helen, in the exhilaration following emotion sustained, and Smith gravely took her hand in his own. For a moment they stood side by side looking out on the East River which O'Connor's office overlooked, and for a space ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
... man," was all the apology I could muster. "And if I ever get a chance at the people who did it, you can count on me!" ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... right bank of Lake Maggiore to Arona and Allessandria, and thence by Acqui gained the castle of the Count on the hill above. It was situated in the midst of glorious scenery. From the summit of a hill near the glorious line of the Alps could be seen Monte Rosa, Mont Blanc, Mont Cenis, Monte Giovi, and thence round the Apennines, while the Gap leading ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous
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