"Walk about" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rest even more heavily on subject peoples than on the soldiers, citizens, or taxpayers of the dominating races. He says of the officer he has been describing, who is humane and intelligent in civil life, that in his military capacity he will frantically declare that "he dare not walk about in a foreign country unless every crime of violence against an Englishman in uniform is punished by the bombardment and destruction of a whole village, or the wholesale flogging and execution of every native in the neighborhood; and also that unless he and his fellow officers have power, without ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling
... grouped around me a curious set of people, all of whom seemed to me so horribly ugly that I felt well satisfied that I had been born on the Earth. Among the company were some eminent scholars who did no more than peer at one another and walk about me, while they were waiting for some learned professors to arrive from a distance. A long, tedious period ensued ere the company of judges or examiners were ...
— Life in a Thousand Worlds • William Shuler Harris
... walk about the room with his hands in his pockets, showing that he had been thinking as much. "Now, what do you say about her doctor? Is he ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... year we shall have really roast goose to eat, my dear old man. You are always thinking of something to give me pleasure. How charming that is! We can let the goose walk about with a string to her leg, and she'll grow fatter still before we ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
... Society of Carpenters, founded at Halifax, Nova Scotia, February 18, 1798, provided in its constitution that all members of twelve months' standing, if sick and confined to bed, should receive two shillings per week; if able to walk about but unable to work, they should receive such a sum as the Society thought ...
— Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions • James B. Kennedy
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