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"Go a long way" Quotes from Famous Books

... cramped in your efforts for want of money," said Murray. "Bribery with these fellows will go a long way, and you know that my purse is always at your service, and never more so ...

— The Three Lieutenants • W.H.G. Kingston

... did, and I had to go a long way for them too; that horrid, wicked old Barnes had cut away my bough, and I had to go all the way to ...

— A Young Mutineer • Mrs. L. T. Meade

... makes a false step, he has much less chance of recovering himself if his head and neck are fastened back. And now," said the master, laughing, "I have given my hobby a good trot out, can't you make up your mind to mount him, too, captain? Your example would go a long way." ...

— Black Beauty • Anna Sewell

... "yea" is "nay" and their "nay," "yea," but it comes to the same thing in the end, for it does not matter whether "yea" is called "yea" or "nay" so long as it is understood as "yea." They go a long way round only to find themselves at the point from which they started, but there is no accounting for tastes. With us such tactics are inconceivable, but so far do the Erewhonians carry them that it is common for them to write whole reviews and articles between ...

— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

... partnership of Kari and Bjorn, and Kari's appreciation of his idealist companion, go a long way to save Kari from a too exclusive and limited devotion to the purpose of vengeance. There is much to be said on behalf of this Bjorn. His relations with Kari prevent the hero of the latter part of the book from turning into a mere hero. The humorous character ...

— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker

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