"In a bad way" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my day called the religious sex. The clergy generally were ready to admit that so far as the interest of the cultured class of men, and indeed of the men generally, in the churches went, they were in a bad way, but they had faith that the devotion of the women would save the cause. Woman was the sheet anchor of the Church. Not only were women the chief attendants at religious functions, but it was largely through their influence ...
— Equality • Edward Bellamy
... change the subject he added: "I want to thank you once more, Frank, for getting me the place. Things were in a bad way at ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn
... Cronidge, I believe. His elder brother's in a bad way. Bad business, this looking ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... The city was in a bad way. There were seventy-five to a hundred big fires going, and a new one started in a rising ball of thermoconcentrate flame while they watched. The three gun-cutters, Elmoran, Gaucho and Bushranger, and about fifty big ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper
... think of slavery it makes me mad. I do not believe in giving you my story 'cause with all the promises that have been made the Negro is still in a bad way in the United States, no matter in what part he lives it's all the same. Now you may be all right; there are a few white men who are but the pressure is such from your white friends that you will be compelled to talk against us and ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various
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