"Last minute" Quotes from Famous Books
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— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... my dear camp-fire girls," read Lucile. "I planned to come to Burleigh long ago, as you all know, and was bitterly disappointed when I was forced at the last minute to ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... just the reason I am going to start now," retorted Danny. "If I should put off starting until the last minute I might not get there at all. I would have to hurry, and it is difficult to hurry and watch for danger at the same time. I've noticed that people who put things off to the last minute and then have to hurry are quite apt to rush headlong into trouble. The ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... away, will you? Don't send a note at the last minute making some excuse." She did not say that to any of the others. A little after she ...
— Pan • Knut Hamsun
... large waistcoat, and a countenance such as would have best befitted a funeral. Lawrence Gouger came, his keen eye alert, foreseeing several chapters in the great novel that Roseleaf was writing, based on the experiences of the next few weeks. But Archie Weil wrote a note at the last minute, regretting that a business engagement that could not be postponed had called him to a distant point, and sending a magnificent ornament in large pearls for the bride, to whom he wished, with her husband, all health ...
— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter
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