"Unhand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that the success of your ambitions would mean the downfall of the Catholic Church in California, and telling them your schemes. Thou art mighty, O Don Diego Estenega, but thou art powerless against the enmity of the Church. They are mightier than thou, and thou wilt never rule in California. Unhand my sister! Thou shalt not have her either. Thou shalt have nothing. Wilt thou unhand her?" he cried, enraged at Estenega's cold reception of his damnatory news. "Thou shouldst not have her if I tore thy heart from ...
— The Doomswoman - An Historical Romance of Old California • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... Unhand the lady!" cried the younger of the two, striking out with his whip at the ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... larboard mate only the patent log clicking off the knots said the butler it needs oiling again but cuthbert said the captain why are you so nervous and what means that flush upon your face that flush your honor is chicken pox said cuthbert i am subject to sudden attacks of it unhand that pie cried the ships surgeon leaping to his feet arrest that butler he is a teuton spy that is not chicken pox at all it is german measles ha ha cried the false butler the ship is doomed there is a clock work bomb in this pie my name is not cuthbert it is friedrich ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... Day—and so early too? Oh, you're a special Officer? unhand my Horse, Sirrah, or you shall pay for all the ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
... heavens! Unhand that lady, you hound!" thundered Love Ellsworth, rushing on the scene, and clutching Ashley with such strength that he released his hold and staggered ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
... in all the majesty of her five feet three inches and commanded: "Unhand me, villain! I spurn your tempting offer." Then earnestly, "Let me go, Bupps! I've got to ...
— 32 Caliber • Donald McGibeny
... Unhand this man! He is a messenger, And not a spy. Your life, my friend, is safe In these rough woods as in your general's town. ...
— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair
... name, am I to get there?" cried the mate, furiously. "Jump down here, Captain Guy, and show yourself a man. Let me up, you Chips! unhand me, I say! Oh! I'll pay you for this, some ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his ...
— Poems of Coleridge • Coleridge, ed Arthur Symons
... "Stand off, gentlemen! Unhand me! Let me reach the scoundrel!" Everyone stamped, and ran, and shouted "Order!" The speaker pounded with his mallet, and Foot ran down the aisle to the chair, drawing out a great horse-pistol and ...
— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
... his sinewy hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, Ancient One!" Eftsoons his hand ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., November 29, 1890 • Various
... In plainer words, I shall be held till I confess what he would have me tell, or until I decay in this tomb. Let me give thee my word, I shall do neither. Unhand me. I shall not ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... above in the purple pane.] And see, my signal rises, Mildred's star! I never saw it lovelier than now It rises for the last time. If it sets, 'Tis that the re-assuring sun may dawn. [As he prepares to ascend the last tree of the avenue, TRESHAM arrests his arm.] Unhand me—peasant, by your grasp! Here's gold. 'Twas a mad freak of mine. I said I'd pluck A branch from the white-blossomed shrub beneath The casement there. Take this, ...
— A Blot In The 'Scutcheon • Robert Browning
... who pleads so energetically should have her prayers granted," said the pirate, with a tone of irony. "But let him beware how he behaves—unhand him," he said to the men, in their own tongue. "These ladies have pleaded for the prisoner, and are answerable for his conduct. And tow, signora," he said, in a blander tone, addressing himself to Ada, "by what means do you propose to remedy the fault ...
— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... stealthily yet swiftly up the long steps, drawing my No. 38 (for at last I had been issued one) as I ran and dashed into the heart of the turmoil swallowing my tendency to shout "Unhand him, ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
... is here, thou canst unhand thy heart And breathe it free, and breathe it free By rangy marsh, in ...
— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller
... his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard, loon!" Eftsoons ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various
... singers of nooks in Space, Petal-mongers, embroiderers of words In the music-haunted houses of the birds, Singers with the thrushes and pewees In the glimmer-lighted roofs Of the trees— Unhand my soul! Buds with singing in their hearts, Birds with blooms upon their wings, All the wandering whispers of delight, The near familiar things; Voice of pine trees, winds of daisies, Sounds of going in the grain Shall not bind me to thy singing When the sky with God ...
— The Voice of the Machines - An Introduction to the Twentieth Century • Gerald Stanley Lee
... How dare you thus insult me? Let go my hand, or I summon help instantly. I am come to seek the king. Will you raise a tumult within hearing of his private apartments? Unhand me, I say," and Arthyn's cheeks flamed dangerously, whilst her ...
— The Lord of Dynevor • Evelyn Everett-Green
... him with his skinny hand, 'There was a ship,' quoth he. Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!' ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various |
