settle down

• “If at the end of that time (3 or 4 years hence) I could find some fair damsel who was foolish enough to trust me," [he suggested hopefully,] "I think I would get-married, and settle down to sober work for the rest of my days in some small city where one could enjoy the advantages of a city and at the same time not feel as if lost.”

  Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]

• “Before he can settle down to reign over Talyina, the Prince must still overcome certain other difficulties—abroad—especially among the starfarers in whose image he has been incarnated.”

  Hokas Pokas

• “ A good way to avoid company, if I want to avoid it, thought Liir, as his spirit began once again to settle down into his body, or — put another way — as his little dreamlet ended and the sorrier sense of the world, even this pretty corner of it, flooded back in.”

  Son of a Witch

• “At the beginning of the winter they returned to Schoenhausen to settle down to a quiet country life.”

  Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

• “Trix had had her fun (so Algy Stanton bluntly phrased it) and would now settle down to business.”

  Frivolous Cupid

• “Oscar has already made it through his party-guy years and is more inclined to settle down now with the right girl.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Lo-Down

• “But in the hands of those who have not this coup d'oeil, many unsuccessful experiments I fear are yet to be tried before they will settle down in freedom and tranquility.”

  Letters

• “‘He’s been at me for years to settle down and marry.”

  Mistress For A Weekend

• “I feel rather no-how, and can't yet settle down to anything!”

  Life of John Coleridge Patteson

• “That might mean leaving your partner to his duck lorange while you grab a Big Mac elsewhere, or it might mean you cleanse together and settle down for the next course as a couple.”

  Simon & Schuster: What Men Say, What Women Hear

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