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And I may tell ye at the off-go, unless we can agree upon some terms, ye are little likely to set eyes upon him.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

The first, which is round, will likely please ye best at the first off-go; but, O Davie, laddie, it's but a drop of water in the sea; it'll help you but a step, and vanish like the morning.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

When all was adjusted, the attendant of the print-machine had only to open gradually the steam admission valve of his engine, and allow it to work the machine gently at its first off-go; and when all was seen to be acting in perfect concert, to open the valve further and allow the machine to go at full speed.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

And I may tell ye at the off-go, unless we can agree upon some terms, ye are little likely to set eyes upon him.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The first, which is round, will likely please ye best at the first off-go; but, O Davie, laddie, it's but a drop of water in the sea; it'll help you but a step, and vanish like the morning.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

I would have to ken, for instance, what ye gave Hoseason at the first off-go? "

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

"He wes a wee fractious and self-willed at the off-go, an 'wud be wantin' this an 'that for his denner, but he sune learned tae tak' what wes pit afore him; an 'as for gaein' oot withoot tellin 'me, he wud as sune hae thocht o' fleein '; when he cam' in he keepit naethin 'back at his tea.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

I would have to ken, for instance, what ye gave Hoseason at the first off-go? "

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Then do thou wend thy ways and off-go from office that thou take thy rest and tend thine old age, living the lave of thy life in the fairest of honour. "

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855