"Come after" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this as a sneer: for he did not believe that mortal presumption could have carried Nathaniel Pipkin so far. What was his indignation, when that poor man replied—'"Yes, I did, Mr. Lobbs, I did come after your daughter. I love her, ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... say,' he went on, 'is that to my mind mothers has rights. That there b'ar's a mother, an' she's got feelin's, like you, an' she's come after her young un, like you—an' I wasn't a-goin' to see her ...
— Children of the Wild • Charles G. D. Roberts
... love will come after marriage, is shocking to minds which have the least spark of delicacy: to such minds, a marriage which begins with indifference will certainly end in ...
— The History of Emily Montague • Frances Brooke
... are you, anyway?" he asked. "I don't know. You stick up a man on the Ghost Lake Road and hide out here when the State Troopers come after you. And now you ask me if it pays better to go straight. Why didn't you go straight ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... by such an effect of imagination may have had the good luck to leave behind him here, the scrofula, which his companion who has come after, has carried with him into Spain. And 'tis for this reason you may see why men in such cases require a mind prepared for the thing that is to be done. Why do the physicians possess, before hand, their patients' credulity with so many false promises of cure, if not to the end, that the ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
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