"Beg off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the utmost gravity, "fer the next five years I never missed attendin' church on Thanksgivin' day but four times; but after that," he added, "I had to beg off. It was too much of a strain," he declared with a chuckle, "an' it took more time 'n Polly c'd really afford to git me ready." And so he rambled on upon such topics as suggested themselves to his mind, or in reply to ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... see," she said thoughtfully as they stood in the hotel entrance, and drew from her bag a tiny silver mounted appointment book and consulted its pages. "Oh, goody! Mamma has an appointment up town that I can easily beg off from. Yes. Do get two tickets and ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton
... papa," said Helen, smiling in a way that put Peter on his mettle, for the moment before he had been ready to beg off. ...
— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn |
