Don't know what we'll settle down to, but there's one thing sure we won't tackle.
I guess our race has been on the tramp since the beginning of creation, just like we'll be, looking for a piece of land that looked good to settle down on.
A considerable body of the Boers, including many men of influence and of intelligence, were disposed to accept the British flag and to settle down in peace.
Doubtless he had intended to settle down, to obtain some post in England; but as things turned out there was nothing left for Antonia.
But I heard you had only just got home, and thought I would give you a chance to settle down.
Having once passed that examination men are said to settle down into a condition of exhausted mediocrity.
I was sitting in my study after breakfast, fiddling with my papers, but unable to settle down to work.
I am in great hopes that the people will settle down quietly.
He knew more about ships, and was quite content to settle down at Brisbane, and keep a morsel of a 20-tonner.
Before Elsie and Rupert came to settle down finally at the farm, they enjoyed, in company with Mr Winslow and his daughter, many charming trips to what I might call the show-places of Australia.
They laughed a deal at first at his English notions and ideas; but gradually Archie got over his greenness, and began to settle down to colonial life, and would have liked Sydney very much indeed if he had only had something to do.
And, children, when you have seen the world, and feel ready to settle down, be sure to choose a good growing-place.
We are going to travel before we settle down," said the cousins.
When you are tired of swimming about, and wish to settle down to grow your shells, choose a clean gravelly bank or a firm rock floor.
When we commence to settle down on the ground to make there our own living, it is then we want your help, and that is the only way that I can see how the poor can get along.
I replied that they had their own means of living, and that we could not feed the Indians, but only assist them to settle down.
Indians taught to cultivate the soil, and the erratic Half-breeds encouraged to settle down, I believe that the solution of all social questions of any present importance in the North-West Territories will have been arrived at.
He was thus comfortable and cheerful; he began to settle down as in a warm nest, and resolved not to worry under these delightful circumstances, but to live many years for his own pleasure and the annoyance of the citizens.
Then he went to the town hall, exhibited his papers, and declared that he intended to settle down in the place.
But there it was; the old man B--used to stay much in foreign parts, but he came home at last to settle down.
All that evening she was unable to settle down either to work or rest.
They all seemed to agree that I had had my fling, and should, as they persisted in calling it, "settle down.
I was to "settle down," and it is only slaves who rebel.
With the world full of good women, and with a fight always going on somewhere, I am very wise not to "settle down.
But the family seemed to think that, before the winter set in, I should take any chance that offered, and, as they expressed it, settle down.
I conclude," said Kenelm, evading any direct notice of that playful taunt, "I conclude from your remark that it is in marriage you are about to settle down.
And though that affair is at an end, he seems little likely ever to settle down to practical duties and domestic habits, an idle wanderer over the face of the earth, only heard of in remote places and with strange companions.
THE minstrel gave a cordial parting shake of the hand to the fellow-traveller whom he had advised to settle down, not noticing how very cold had become the hand in his own genial grasp.
He said that, rather than upset your cherished plans, he would gladly consent to settle down in Sidmouth for life.
That he was to be with her always, was to give up his work to settle down in comfort, was indeed a delight to her.
Bartley felt an ambition to settle down and go to writing.
We have all tried to get him to settle down; but he would not listen.
It ain't a bad country to settle down in, for folks that likes to settle," said Cheyenne.
You see, I imagine it will take me some little time to settle down to the new order of things.
Suppose I want to settle down to--to quiet domestic happiness, to loving motherhood?
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