"Turn out" Quotes from Famous Books
... you do; but you want to get back the Okapi as well, and if you offend her it may turn out more awkward for us." ... — In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville
... to hope that no question in controversy between this and other Governments will lead to any serious breach of amicable relations, grave as some differences of attitude and policy have been land may yet turn out to be. I am sorry to say that the gravest threats against our national peace and safety have been uttered within our own borders. There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, born under other flags but ... — State of the Union Addresses of Woodrow Wilson • Woodrow Wilson
... put your ear to the keyhole, and listen breathlessly? Well; it must have been that he was subconscious that he was trying a bold experiment, and that he had taken this poor old woman to be the medium of it, in the hope, of course, that it would turn out well; yet with other views than her interest in the matter. What was the harm of that? Medical men, no doubt, are always doing so, and he was a medical man for the time. Then why was he ... — Septimius Felton - or, The Elixir of Life • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... vindicate public liberty by the sword. But, if they determine to try the chance of war, they will, if they are wise, entrust to their chief that plenary authority without which war cannot be well conducted. It is possible that, if they give him that authority, he may turn out a Cromwell or a Napoleon. But it is almost certain that, if they withhold from him that authority, their enterprises will end like ... — The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... thousand blessings on thy sweet head!' cried Albert to her, as he came running. 'Look, look, how thy mushrooms have changed! If the others turn out as well, I am afraid that, after all, I must forgive that little shrimp that was so killingly ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
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