"Unturned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inquiries would be made; for the favorite must not be ill if anything could be done to save her, nor must a stone be left unturned to effect ...
— Betty Vivian - A Story of Haddo Court School • L. T. Meade
... Whatever weakness there was in the girl's character, she possessed an overwhelming desire to have people believe that she stood on the side of right. She was ambitious to be thought an earnest Christian girl. She would have left no stone unturned to have been a leader among the girls. She was willing to cajole, to cater in order to win friendship. Yet in spite of all her efforts, she influenced only a few. Among those few were none of the stronger ...
— Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall • Jean K. Baird
... first to last. These poor silly women-things—they've not the sense to know it's no use denying what's proved. It'll make against her with the jury, I doubt, her being so obstinate: they may be less for recommending her to mercy, if the verdict's against her. But Mr. Irwine 'ull leave no stone unturned with the judge—you ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... any property which might be concealed. The cupboard and sideboard were shifted away from the wall, the chairs were examined, the pictures taken down and pulled from their frames; indeed, no stone was left unturned. ...
— The White Lie • William Le Queux
... angered by the man's persistence. "I'll see that that doesn't happen," he replied, "and I'll leave no stone unturned to find the scoundrel who really did the deed, and have him punished. But I'm not certain that the man will ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
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