"Rush off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know we want to keep some little pleasant thing going, and draw Lillie in with us. When a girl has been used to lively society, she can't come down to mere nothing; and I am afraid she will be wanting to rush off to New York, and ...
— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... found me at home. From five to seven I shall be frantically busy, and then I have to rush off to dine with ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
... with energy. "I expected to have been almost there by this time; but the gentleman who is supposed to be taking care of me, had to rush off and stay just long enough to miss ...
— Ester Ried • Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
... their will into going on from day to day with the same exhausting program, finally conclude that unless they take a vacation they are going to break down. The doctor tells them so and they know it. Whereupon they rush off for a week or ten days; some of them enter upon an orgy of exercise, others relax into a somnolent state of lying around and thanking their stars that they can rest at last. They certainly do feel better and do improve, but they come back to work merely to begin ...
— Keeping Fit All the Way • Walter Camp
... in a pretty state then! Farmer Giles would rush off for a fire-engine; we would throw up the windows, and then I'd get out on the roof and make a speech. I'd remind nurse of all the nasty things she has said and done to us since we were babies; how she ...
— Odd • Amy Le Feuvre
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