"Turn the tables" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mare's reins and stepped away from her head. Drummond laid the two revolvers at some distance away from them on the ground, so that, while he was searching Hiram, the latter would have no opportunity to grab one from him and turn the tables. ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... is only given to show that the proper delivery of one blow or hit is often enough to turn the tables, and how advisable it is to practise often, so as to keep the eye and hand both ...
— Broad-Sword and Single-Stick • R. G. Allanson-Winn
... rare sport," Cnut said, "when this armed force comes out to attack us, if we could turn the tables by slipping in, and ...
— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty
... that of 1807; when, on the other hand, it exceeded in the ratio of fourteen to twelve that of 1829, twenty-two years later. This interest is peculiarly subject to fluctuations; some of which in the past have been less explicable than the one it is now undergoing. Another decade may turn the tables, and restore the flag of the old Liverpool liners to their fleeter but less shapely supplanters. The steamer and the clipper are both American inventions. Why not their combination ours as well? The centenary of Rumsey's ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various
... do it then," urged Mrs. Tuffin earnestly. "Make the best of a bad job an' turn the tables on she. All the village 'ull be mad wi' her—the tale 'ull be ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
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