He'll rush you at the go-off, but don't get rattled. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It would be a great thing for us if any undertaking of this kind could live long enough to get affections and associations connected with it, whose steady glow should take the place of, and more than supply, the shine of novelty, and the dazzle of a first go-off. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But on the discomfort scale, 10 watching the Vice President go-off script on a Sunday talk show, 5 having an informal bite with Hillary, and 1 getting a foot massage on Air Force One as we fly into the sunset, I'd give it a 7 -- the rough equivalent of catching Sarkozy eyeballing the passing caboose of a girl too young even for Berlusconi. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Bloom and hard to follow at the first go-off but the music of ❋ Unknown (2003)
Corley at the first go-off was inclined to suspect it was something to do with Stephen being fired out of his digs for bringing in a bloody tart off the street. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"You can strike my name from the ballot at the go-off," stated Percy, promptly. ❋ Albert Walter Tolman (N/A)
As at Madeira, the ship's company were allowed leave to go on shore, watch and watch in turn: so, belonging as we both did to the starboard division, Mick and I were amongst those who had the first go-off. ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)
You must be careful whom you tell the story to, old chap; for at the first go-off it sounds as if it was not merely eating too much that was the matter. ❋ Lanoe Falconer (N/A)
Such would probably be his first go-off; and the next impulse would be to run, shout, cry fire! or murder! ❋ Various (N/A)
The first action gave the blow with more direct force than the second, which had the notch upon what is called the underhammer, but was defective in the absence of any means to regulate the distance of the "go-off," or ❋ Various (N/A)
"The lass," says he at the first go-off, "what came o 'the lass that will be my wife?" says he, with a great breath. ❋ John Sillars (N/A)
Hain't goin 'to put all my money in at the first go-off. ❋ Clarence Budington Kelland (1922)
Any one who pretended to a knowledge of what occurred at the siege of Badajos was especially an object of silent pity to Mr. Poulter; he wished that prating person had been run down, and had the breath trampled out of him at the first go-off, as he himself had, he might talk about the siege of Badajos then! ❋ Unknown (1917)
Wagnerian music, though confessedly grand in its way, was a bit too heavy for Bloom and hard to follow at the first go-off but the music of Mercadante's _Huguenots_, ❋ James Joyce (1911)
I thought at the first go-off it would be kind of easy to make him one. ❋ Unknown (1907)
"But -- What you said at the first go-off, the day you was within talking to me and the doctor, was that you'd --" ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)
