"Let alone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Yes; but, let alone the country-people, every man with his kris, there are the military followers of those two Rajahs ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... placed on tobacco production in the previous years had created an enormous surplus which had forced the price down to a penny a pound. Harvey found also that because of their "greedie desires to make store of Tobackoe," the settlers had neglected to plant sufficient corn, let alone to develop different commodities as instructed by the King. Calling an Assembly, he convinced the representatives to agree to reduce the amount of tobacco planted, and to increase the amount of corn. He also sent ships into the Chesapeake and southward to Cape ...
— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn
... in a sufferin' state. The Town allowed 'em one dollar a week. But how wuz ten human beings to live on a dollar a week. The children worked every chance they got, but they couldn't earn enough to keep 'em in shoes, let alone other clothin' and vittles. And the old house wuz too cold for 'em to stay in durin' the cold weather, it wuz for Grandma Smedley, anyway, if the children could stand it she couldn't. And what wuz to be done. A cold winter wuz a cumin' on, and it wouldn't delay a minute ...
— Samantha at Saratoga • Marietta Holley
... people in this village would welcome your professional glance as a beam from heaven, and bask in it, and drop every symptom as if it were a pearl, but I am not a 'case.' I am simply a human being, who asks nothing but to be let alone." ...
— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards
... pushed at the door of the eating-house. "And ain't it going to be a nice job to find the man that scragged him?—I don't think! But I'm going to take a hand at that game, mister!—let alone the police." ...
— The Orange-Yellow Diamond • J. S. Fletcher
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