"Getting even" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as one who is getting even with an old enemy and drank, with every evidence of delight, the second ...
— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann
... to force a fight on Bert, or whether the unexpected fall that came to him, caused it, no one knew, but certainly, for the next few days, Danny let Bert alone. When he passed him he scowled, or shook his fist, or muttered something about "getting even," but this was all. ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope
... the supposed interests of popular patriotism, have brought our whole national literature under a reproach hardly deserved. Mr. Greene, from his long residence abroad, has heard and known too much of this reproach to have risked getting even under the shadow ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various
... and in proof of that I am going to take Moranges with me to-night. He is young and inexperienced, and it will be a good lesson for him to see how a gallant whose amorous intrigues did not begin yesterday sets about getting even with a coquette. He can turn ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - LA CONSTANTIN—1660 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE |
