Go on, or else you can't imagine what will happen.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Go on, or else you can't imagine what will happen."
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is just the same in the Foreign Office,—if you go out of Europe you get out of the regular line.
— from Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant
What do you mean, working off your grouch on—” “—or else you won’t have anything to spend, un’erstand?
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
Got to have your white kit, arms and accoutrements all klim-bim , as the Germans say, before you dress and go out, or else you'll have to do it in the dark."
— from The Wages of Virtue by Percival Christopher Wren
“Niall,” answered the emperor, “your words are as those of the brave; but did you know, or could you catch a single glance of our enemy, your utterance would be frozen with dread; horror would be on your countenance; and if you were not immediately overwhelmed, you would turn and fly as we do.”
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 46, May 15, 1841 by Various
All you want to enable you to follow hounds is a stout heart, a stick, and a “piece” in your pocket, and if luck favours you, as it assuredly will if you go out often enough, you will find yourself
— from Foxhunting on the Lakeland Fells by Richard Clapham
Besides, your Lordship forgets that what we now inquire into, is, whether the generality of our English youth of quality should be educated in this form; not, whether two or three young men, of the most uncommon genius and application, may not possibly succeed in it.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd
"I shan't be going out of England yet, you know; and now the war is over you need have no fear of my getting killed, and a few months sooner or later cannot make much difference.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
"If you don't get out of 'em yourself, no one'll do it for you.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse
It is so, I believe, often; that boyhood, which is, as it were, ripened childhood, destroys the grace of our earliest years; that again, when youth offers us a second beginning of life, we are again impressed with good; but that ripened youth, which is manhood, brings with it again the reason of hardness, and again our spiritual growth, is destroyed.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
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