"Get hold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will send him ashore at once with Pedro, to get hold of a good pilot and four good negro boatmen, and a native sail. I think that is ...
— The Queen's Cup • G. A. Henty
... the cornice striving to get hold of the pillar with his feet and legs, Sergius was wrestling with the question, what could impel a fellow being to tempt Providence so rashly? If a messenger with intelligence for some one in the procession, why not wait for him outside? In short, the monk ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... "untruthful and absurd trash" shall be distilled into mine at the rate of about 3-1/8 pages of the first to one column of the second. Your readers will never know how much they gain by the process, until Mr. James Smith publishes it all in a big book, or until they get hold of what he has already published. I have six pounds avoirdupois of pamphlets and letters; and there is more than half a pound of letters {343} written to you in the last two months. Your compositor must feel aggrieved by the rejection of these clearly ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan
... way we can have a chance," replied the other, quickly. "Here, let me have the noose end of your rope, Toby; I'm going to slip it around under my arms. Then you three get hold, and I'll climb over the railing here, just where that cabin roof is going to pass under. Too bad that there's so much room, because it won't stick fast; so I must drop down on the roof and grab the child. ...
— Afloat on the Flood • Lawrence J. Leslie
... "I thought I'd get hold of you again some time," said Jack, "but hang me if I expected to find you out here. ...
— Frank and Fearless - or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent • Horatio Alger Jr.
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