"Clear off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Saturday July 26th 1806. The moring was cloudy and continued to rain as usual, tho the cloud seemed somewhat thiner. I therefore posponed seting out untill 9 A.M. in the hope that it would clear off but finding the contrary result I had the horses caught and we set out biding a lasting adieu to this place which I now call camp disappointment. I took my rout through the open plains S. E. 5 ms. passing a small creek at 2 ms. from the mountains wher I changed my direction ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... and threateningly. "Yes, thirteen is an unlucky number; but, if you don't shut up and clear off these dishes, I'll make our number twelve. Glad you've got something to think about besides that woman, but—shut up. You ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson
... what we'll do to Ballard Will surely be a shame! We'll push their team clear off the field And win the ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice
... was, what a cad!—he was amazed that he had not discovered it before—to clear off and leave a girl like this, without a word of farewell except the letter. He wondered if he meant to deliver it and admit that he knew Ashton, or if he meant just to stick a stamp on and post it ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... in the pool, and there was a bit of root like a stick half gnawed through. He'd been potted, and got two bullet wounds in the thigh; but he could walk already. It's evident he was just waiting till we were gone, to clear off after his people. He'd got that beastly scurvy look a nigger gets when he hasn't had anything to eat for ...
— Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland • Olive Schreiner
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