"Come to grips" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the shadow of the van; And I was on the point to rise To send him spinning 'mid the wheels And stop his leering grin with mud ... And would have done it in a tick ... When, suddenly, alive with fright, She started, with red, parted lips, As though she guessed we'd come to grips, And turned her black eyes full on me ... And as I looked into their light My heart forgot the lust of fight, And something shot me to the quick, And ran like wildfire through my blood, And tingled to my finger-tips ... And, in a dazzling flash, I knew I'd never been ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various
... to come to grips, And here we shall gain our wish; Moreover, I fancy that yonder ships Have nothing on ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 16, 1914 • Various
... well—and try to love him, though he is twice your age and more. Then, when his enemy is in his power, he finds he can't strike him down without striking you too. Take your young man, Sheba O'Neill, and marry him, and for God's sake, get him out of Alaska before I come to grips with him again. I'm not a patient man, and he's tried me sair. They say I'm a good hater, and I always thought it true. But what's the use of hating a man when your soft arms are round him ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine |
