"Pitch into" Quotes from Famous Books
... disposed, as he will presently declare to a fellow- gentleman in waiting, "to pitch into the young man"; but his instructions are positive. Therefore he sulkily supposes that the young man must come up into the library. There he leaves the young man in a large room, not over-light, while he makes ... — Bleak House • Charles Dickens
... now that we are four to six," said Snap. "You were willing enough to pitch into Shep and me ... — Out with Gun and Camera • Ralph Bonehill
... as every Slaughter House man knows, lasted for two hours and twenty-nine minutes, by Hawkins's immense watch. All this time the air resounded with cries of "Go it, Berry!" "Go it, Biggs!" "Pitch into him!" "Give it him!" and so on. Shall I describe the hundred and two rounds of the combat?—No!—It would occupy too much space, and the taste for such descriptions has ... — Men's Wives • William Makepeace Thackeray |