"Getting even" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fight on Bert, or whether the unexpected fall that came to him, caused it, no one knew, but certainly, for the next few days, Danny let Bert alone. When he passed him he scowled, or shook his fist, or muttered something about "getting even," ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope
... directing, and I don't think he's up to it; he's a fine second in command, but he can't plan. Yes, I'd do it in a minute, though it would probably mean the job I'm making my reputation on going smash. Do you want me to? If the whole thing went to the devil it would be a small price to pay for getting even another half-chance to make good with you. May I, Marjorie? Say ...
— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer
... before wanted to shoot anything except a python. Why a python we could not quite fathom. Personally, I think she had some vague idea of getting even for that Garden of Eden affair. But lately, pythons proving scarcer than in that favoured locality, she had switched to a lion. She wanted, she said, to give the skin to her sister. In vain we ...
— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White
... making as much as we did at first. The crops failed last summer, and collections are hard. Williams has been pressing for money, and I hope all the family will treat him well, for he is the kind of man who might take out his spite upon me, for the sake of getting even with somebody else." ...
— A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties • Charles Major
... himself," said Mrs. Easterfield, "but he asserts that he spends a great deal of his time getting even with people." ...
— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton
... at Mortimer, who grinned maliciously. Andy knew, as well as if he had been told, that the tackle had been needlessly fierce. But there was no earthly use in speaking of it. Rather would it do him more harm than good. This, then, was part of the "getting even" game that ...
— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes
... red in the face and abusive, while I remained cool and exasperating. I was getting even with Jimmie for ...
— Abroad with the Jimmies • Lilian Bell
... back with me. And at that rate you can see for yourself how long it will take to make even a beginning at colonization. I figure three or four days for the round trip, at the inside. If you go we'll be all summer and more getting even twenty-five or thirty colonists here. Whereas, if you can manage to let me do this work alone, we'll have fifty in the caves by ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England |
