"Drop in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that, even if members of the University did not drop in, which he expected, at least the bell would be a memento ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman
... our first view of the Unredeemed City (though it was really not my first view, as I had been there before the war) from a curve in the road where it suddenly emerges from the woods of evergreen laurel above Volosca to drop in steep white zigzags to the sea. It is superbly situated, this ancient city over whose possession Slav and Latin are growling at each other like dogs over a disputed bone. With its snowy buildings spread on the slopes of a shallow amphitheater between ...
— The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the AEgean • Edward Alexander Powell
... know it was there. I woke up with the very words in my ears, 'Don't let him come to Calne!' and I started out of bed in terror for Lord Hartledon, lest he should come. We are only half awake, you know, at these moments. I pulled the curtain aside and looked out. Gum, if ever I thought to drop in my life, I thought it then. There was but one person to be seen in the ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... to draw attention to the remarkable drop in the sick evacuations from this Brigade as ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton
... distance to the courtyard below was so exceeding great that it was certain death to drop thereto. Yet by great good fortune did I find in the corner of the cell a rope that had been there left and lay hid in the great darkness. But this rope had not length enough, and to drop in safety from the end was nowise possible. Then did I remember how the wise man from Ireland did lengthen the blanket that was too short for him by cutting a yard off the bottom of the same and joining it on to the top. So I made haste to divide the rope in ...
— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney
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