"Digress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and more imaginative than any other. The number of summonses at Chambers is only limited by his capacity to invent them. Ask any respectable solicitor how many honest claims are stifled by proceedings at Chambers. And if I may digress in all sincerity for the purpose of usefulness, I may state that while recording my dream for the Press, Solicitors have begged of me to bring this matter forward, so that the Public may know how their interests are played with, and their rights stifled by the iniquitous ...
— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris
... I must digress here a bit from my own personal adventures to explain briefly how the fall of Nu-Yok came about, as I ...
— The Airlords of Han • Philip Francis Nowlan
... and we found it excellent. By the bye, Lord A., to digress to a different latitude, how did you succeed in your last excursion to ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, - Issue 402, Supplementary Number (1829) • Various
... "proud Albion's virgin shores," but I did not do so as I felt fairly certain that he would not approve, and I do not wish to lay myself open to rebuffs from him after his behaviour concerning the smoking incident. I boil with rage at the thought, but again I digress. ...
— The Diary of a U-boat Commander • Anon
... plantation having taken such firm root, that she was able to stand the wintry blasts of fortune, we shall digress for a moment, while she wields her sparkling heat, according to the fashion of the day, in executing the orders of the sturdy Briton; then of the polite and heroic Roman; afterwards of our mild ancestors, the Saxons. Whether she raised her hammer for the plundering Dane is ...
— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton
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