"Bail out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fact the matter of giving, or not giving, seemed to turn). He threw him a piece of money, saying, as he did so, "look out, my friend, or that quarter will get you into the calaboose." Next morning it so happened that your grandfather was called to that useful, but uninteresting place, to bail out a colored servant, who was prone, occasionally, to get into scrapes, which subjected him to temporary imprisonment, when, whom should he find there, safely ensconced in one of the cells, but the Irishman, his ...
— A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless - In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren • Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless |
