"Prepare for" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... listen to me. This affair is a serious business; and although I hope and believe that we shall all enjoy our life very much, still we must prepare for it, and look upon it in earnest, and not as a sort of game. I have business here which I cannot finish before another eight or nine months. Let us all make the most of our time before we start. In the first place, the language of the people among whom we are going is Spanish, and we must ...
— On the Pampas • G. A. Henty
... hesitate to reap their own fields and slay their own cattle. We are told that Abraham rushed out to his herd and caught a calf to make a meal for the strangers, and that while he asked Sarah to make the cakes, he turned over the calf to a man servant to prepare for the table. Thus the labor of securing the food fell upon the male sex, while the labor of preparing ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... clank. You've been drowning Frenchmen every chance you've had. It will now be my pleasing duty to make you do a little gurgling on your own account. You'll find out for the first time in your lives what it is to be in the swim. Put on your bathing-suits and prepare for the avenger. The lions of St. Marc must ...
— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs
... I drew up the table nearer to the bed and began to prepare for rest; but in the new position of the light, I was struck by a picture on the wall. It represented a woman, still young. To judge by her costume and the mellow unity which reigned over the canvas, she had long been dead; to judge by the vivacity of ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the room, and Avery went to prepare for the walk. "Poor little souls!" she murmured to herself. "How I ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
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