"Played out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... game is played out," he said. "We all know how rotten things are. All we want to know now is what's to be done." And he himself had become absorbed in what the working class was doing. As a reporter in the West he had been to strike after strike, ending with a long ugly struggle ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole
... that it did. I ceased to be aware of my liver. That winter I was able to work to good purpose, and the result was that I arrived. It dawned upon me at last that the "precarious" idea was played out. One could see too plainly the ...
— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse
... Buck sternly, "this racket's played out. Ther's been shootin' to-night over the same thing. Wal, ther's going to be more shootin' if it don't quit right here. If you leave this shanty to go across to the farm to molest the folks there, Beasley, here, is a dead man before you get a yard ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
... note-book). Excellent, my Lord! excellent! It shall be played out of tune on a score of regimental ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 1, 1891 • Various
... smaller place?" asked Superintendent Galloway, abruptly. "You'll never do any good on this part of the coast—it's played out, and ...
— The Shrieking Pit • Arthur J. Rees
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