"On the go" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Not altogether somersaulted with surprise, as you might say. We knows Chukkers, and Chukkers knows us—de we." He dropped his voice. "Monkey Brand'll tell you a tale or two about his ole friend. You arst him one day when you gets him on the go." ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... about? Always on the go, eh? The last scenes you took here came out well. I saw them in London on the R.A.M.C. film. What do you ...
— How I Filmed the War - A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who - Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. • Lieut. Geoffrey H. Malins
... again, but I kept them on the go, the hard, knotted rope of straw paid into both of them without mercy till I thought ...
— Forbidden Fruit • Anonymous
... was bold in his methods and picturesquely lavish with his munitions of war. The Pullman Company did not then enjoy the royalty and defensive alliance which now protects it against rate legislation throughout the West, and so Wickersham was kept continually on the go, making alliances and friendships among legislators and journalists against the days ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... the forester, "it is perfectly natural; I would love dearly myself to sleep in the mornings, but I must always be on the go. What I want is a son-in-law, a strong youth to replace me; I would voluntarily give him my gun and my ...
— International Short Stories: French • Various
... doubt that the American people are active, strenuous workers. They will willingly go any distance, and undertake any journey, however arduous, if it promises business; they seem to be always on the go, and they are prepared to start anywhere at a moment's notice. An American who called on me a short time ago in Shanghai told me that when he left his house one morning at New York, he had not the slightest notion he was going to undertake a long ...
— America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat • Wu Tingfang
... it make if we hunted or not?" replied Uncle Lance to his foreman with some little feeling. "Suppose we did only hunt every third or fourth day? Those Wilson folks have a way of entertaining friends which makes riding after hounds seem commonplace. Why, the girls had Glenn and Aaron on the go until old man Nate and myself could hardly get them out on a hunt at all. And when they did, provided the girls were along, they managed to get separated, and along about dusk they'd come slouching in by pairs, looking as innocent as turtle-doves. Not that those ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... what we were fighting for . . . (Or have we? I don't know). But anyway I have my wish: I'm back upon the old Boul' Mich', And how my heart's aglow! Though in my coat's an empty sleeve, Ah! do not think I ever grieve (The pension for it, I believe, Will keep me on the go). ...
— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service
... quite what every highly respected family ought to be. For a long time now Lizabetha Prokofievna had had it in her mind that all the trouble was owing to her "unfortunate character," and this added to her distress. She blamed her own stupid unconventional "eccentricity." Always restless, always on the go, she constantly seemed to lose her way, and to get into trouble over the simplest and more ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... exertion on one day or for one week, give way on the next day, or for the next week, to an energetic gayety, and sweaty, flushed skin, a prominent appetite for food and every sort of activity. Driven to be forever on the go, for one period, in the next they feel like lying down most of the day, with no inclination for any life whatever. The stage of depression may go as far as a melancholia, the stage of stimulation as far as mania. They may simulate manic-depressive or cyclic insanity. ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.
... along to the window, and looking up and down the road. "Denno. Mile off, mebbe. Master critter to be on the go!" ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various |
