"Hang on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Hang on by your eyelids, Sis! but don't stir for Heaven's sake!" shouted one of the men, as two others started on a hopeless ascent ...
— The Queen of the Pirate Isle • Bret Harte
... the sun or stars, but by any "clock"—that is, by any recurrent rhythm taken as a standard of comparison. It would seem that the existence and energy of each chosen centre, as well as its career and encounters, hang on the collateral existence of other centres of force, among which it must wend its way: yet the only witness to their presence, and the only known property of their substance, is their "radio-activity", or the physical light ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana
... left its mark on the memory of both the young man and woman had, when looked at quite sensibly, been rather stupidly spent. They had walked out of town along a country road. Then they had stopped by a fence near a field of young corn and George had taken off his coat and let it hang on his arm. "Well, I've stayed here in Winesburg—yes—I've not yet gone away but I'm growing up," he had said. "I've been reading books and I've been thinking. I'm going to try to ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson
... or alliances which stand instead of it. You have superseded a woman who more than any other could have a claim to your good fortune: she is sister to the prime minister, who has in her train, like Lucifer, more than a third part of heaven, for all the courtiers hang on her brother. "On the other hand, we are not accustomed to remain so long in opposition to the will of the king. Such a resistance is not natural to us; it weighs upon us, it harms us, the favor of our master being our chief good. We ...
— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
... ready, and one end handed to her. She fastened it securely about her waist, and, warning the others to hang on for dear life, she began to crawl ...
— Caps and Capers - A Story of Boarding-School Life • Gabrielle E. Jackson
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