And now grief is taking away A my strength, and no long period of my life remains; and in my early days am I cut off; nor is death grievous to me, now about to get rid of my sorrows by death.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

When he came home with his wealth his brothers were astonished, and the second said, "Well, I will go forth and see whether I cannot get rid of my scythe as profitably."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

But they could not bear the thought of growing rich on money so acquired, and felt as though they could never hope to prosper with it.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[1013] The figures 1 and 2 in Plate VI. are fairly good representations of men simulating indignation.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The early moon had drenched the arches with pale blue, and, weaving over the night, in and out of the gossamer rifts of moon, swept a song, a song with more than a hint of sadness, infinitely transient, infinitely regretful.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

“If you want to get rid of me,” said she, “send me back to Venice, but don’t talk to me about marrying.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As the majority of the men, for obvious reasons, agreed with them in wishing to get rid of Mrs. Stanton, they proceeded to teach them political tactics, got out a printed opposition ticket and defeated her for president by three votes.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

To the great relief of Mrs. Sanders, Sam was allowed to depart without any reference, on the part of the hostess, to the pettitoes and toasted cheese; to which the ladies, with such juvenile assistance as Master Bardell could afford, soon afterwards rendered the amplest justice—indeed they wholly vanished before their strenuous exertions.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Then, to get rid of me, she told me that you had died penniless, that you were worthless and that she had made a mistake in her youth, an innocent girl's mistake.
— from Notre Coeur; or, A Woman's Pastime: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

"But he saw a chance to get rid of me, so he sent me after you, probably knowing that you would not come; but it offered an excuse to get me where he wanted me.
— from The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

We first called attention to this subject some five years ago, and after the changes, &c. of Mr. Sparks had been pointed out in The International , a series of carefully prepared criticisms appeared in the Evening Post , in which the discrepancies between the original letters of Washington were exhibited to a degree that at once and for ever destroyed the good reputation of Mr. Sparks in this department.
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

I could not get rid of my suspicions, notwithstanding his changed tone and manner.
— from True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson

I calculated that with its aid I might both repay my landlady and assist yourself and get rid of my surroundings (where I can hardly sit down to table without the rascals making jokes about me).
— from Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky