"Take control" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Sergeant see an angel, the time you were down in the snow?" Colonel Hampton nodded. "Well, I made her see ... things that weren't angels," Dearest continued. "After I'd driven her almost to distraction, I was able to get into her mind and take control of her." Colonel Hampton felt a shudder inside of him. "That was horrible; that woman had a mind like a sewer; I still feel dirty from it! But I made her get the pistol—I knew where you kept it—and I knew how to use it, even if she didn't. Remember when we were shooting muskrats, ...
— Dearest • Henry Beam Piper
... enterprise might be only an experiment, and might close at some future period, leaving these children a public burden. But J. R. Shipherd pledged his word that no child of whom the American Missionary Association should take control should become a public burden, and would further agree to expend on the building and grounds, at least from three thousand to five thousand dollars within a year and a half ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland
... asked. "The Captain cannot stir; the mate dead; the men already crazed because we take no prizes. They will murder us also, and take control." ...
— Wolves of the Sea • Randall Parrish
... It is known that the Congress of the United States assembles every year, and no one supposed that this bill was to establish a bureau to be ingrafted upon the country as a permanent institution; far from it. Nor is it a bill that is intended to go into the States and take control of the ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes
... Adam. "Perhaps I'll ask you to remember that by and by. In the meantime, I've no use for arguing and am going to stop. We'll say no more about it, but if I'm too sick to handle things, you'll take control. You know my plans, and that's enough; I don't need your promises that you won't let me down. Now you can get out. I'm ...
— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss |
