"Sink in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... three things of most importance are the stove, the sink, and the kitchen table. If there is no sink in the kitchen, there will be some other place arranged for washing the dishes, probably the kitchen table, and this must be taken into consideration when the furniture is placed. As most of the work is done at the stove and ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools • Ministry of Education Ontario
... upon their future gains. But the company will fall off more and more each succeeding year, although the speculations will continue; for people always find a good reason for a bad season, and anticipate a better one the next. At last, they will find that they are again deserted, and property will sink in value to nothing; the reaction will have fully taken place, prices will fall even lower than they were at first; honesty and civility will be reassumed, although, probably, the principal will have been lost. Thus will the bubble burst with them, as ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... me that the Landais, so as to get over the marshy plains, and not sink in up to their hips, stride ...
— Nobody's Boy - Sans Famille • Hector Malot
... I mean," went on Darrow, after the slight pause necessary to let this sink in. "The fear would bring about a general catastrophe only less serious than the fact itself. It's up to you newspaper men to see that they don't catch this fear. There'll be a hundred letters from foxy boys with just enough ...
— The Sign at Six • Stewart Edward White
... moved quietly but swiftly away from the familiar scenes, his heart which had been beating so high from hope and excitement began to sink in his bosom. He had never dreamed of the force of his attachment to this dear place, and he turned his face toward the old gray house again and again. Every step away from it seemed more difficult than the last, ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss
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