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"Work off" Quotes from Famous Books

... rode for pleasure. To-day you will ride for penance; and incidentally"—an irrepressible little smile crept round the corners of the Bishop's mouth, and twinkled in his eyes—"incidentally, my daughter, you will work off a certain stiffness from which you must be suffering, after the unwonted exercise. Ah me!" said the Bishop, "that is ever the Divine method. Punishments should be remedial, as well as deterrent. There is much stiffness of mind ...

— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay

... defender of the national honor" one day, and "a brutal and licentious soldiery" the next, you naturally bewilder him, and he looks upon you with suspicion. There is nobody to speak for Thomas except people who have theories to work off on him; and nobody understands Thomas except Thomas, and he does not always know what ...

— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling

... a rage, you are beside yourself, and are glad to meet a friend, that you may work off ...

— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part First • Honore de Balzac

... full Possession of the Field of Battle;—where, 'tis certain, he will keep every Body a League off, and may pop by himself till he is weary: Besides, as Trim seems bent upon purging himself, and may have Abundance of foul Humours to work off, I think he cannot ...

— A Political Romance • Laurence Sterne

... there wasn't much left to tell her about the Castle or the Castle Rock. When I began to work off my erudition by mentioning the name of Edwin, for whom Edinburgh was named, and who made it a royal borough in ...

— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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