"Throw off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... still the old aunt would not die, and as they sought not her, nor heir's (quite contrary to St. Paul's disinterestedness), she was looked upon in the light of an incumbrance, on her own property and in her own house. Mrs. Tracy longed to throw off the yoke of dependance, and made small secret of the hatred of the fetter: for the old woman grew so deaf and blind, that there could be no risk at all, either in speaking one's mind, or in thoroughly ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... scarcely a disease or a symptom that I ever heard of that has not at some time preyed upon my mind lest I become a victim of it. These fears are hard to throw off or laugh out of existence when once they have become a part of your very being. In order to avert untoward conditions which I thought might overtake me, I have changed from one occupation to another about as often as the man in the moon modifies his physiognomy. ...
— Confessions of a Neurasthenic • William Taylor Marrs
... throw off the memories of his vacation so easily as he had at first imagined. The busy week that followed his return to Schwarzburg furnished enough excitement to divert his thoughts for a time into a more cheerful channel, and he was further ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford
... got one for us?" inquired the cattle-buyer of Baugh. "This is no time to throw off, or refuse ...
— Cattle Brands - A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories • Andy Adams
... material importance to us at this time, as they lay in the direct road between Tlascala and our head-quarters at Tezcuco, but both of them were garrisoned by Mexican troops; and though Cortes was at this time solicited by several important districts to enable them to throw off the yoke of Mexico, he considered it as of the first necessity to dislodge the Mexicans from these two towns, on purpose to open a secure communication with our allies, and to cover the transport of our ship timber from Tlascala. He sent therefore ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr
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