"Take home" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arms and bore them to the roof, caring nothing for the moment for the rising water. Finally composing himself, he kissed them both and watched them float away. His father arrived here to-day to assist his son and take home with him the bodies of the children, which have been recovered. Dr. Holland, after the death of his children, was carried out into the flood and finally to a building, in the window of which a man was standing. The doctor held up his hands; the man seized them ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... quilt. Should I have to sew it all? I was in despair. But my grandmother was much pleased with the show. "There!" she said, "when you finish those, I shall prepare some more, and if you are industrious, you will have enough for a quilt by spring, and then I will have a quilting and you can take home to your mother a sample of the work you ...
— Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic • Olive Thorne Miller
... with the impartiality of an observer. "Then you can run in the garden," she added, "and pick a bouquet if you wish. There is not much in bloom now but the heart's-ease and the flowering almond and the daffodils, but you can make a bouquet of them to take home to your mother." ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... come back here with them and Moose—he wouldn't forget to bring him—to pursue the Indians. You must also bring a team of mules with the small waggon with you, the same as I told you about just now, although I did not then think to what a sad use we should put it, to take home Mr Seth in; and look ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... hardly my customary fee; I'll take home this first instalment, then return and bring an action ...
— Fantastic Fables • Ambrose Bierce
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