1296 examples of settle down in sentences

But it's a good time to buy; and I'll buy your place and give it to Hollis if he'll settle down and work it.

"It soon became plain that it would not be easy for me to carry out my marriage plans and settle down among my vines and fig-trees.

And how could she settle down to this humdrum life after all the excitement and gaiety she's been accustomed to?" "Women do such things every day.

On one point I was still anxious, which was that M. Zola should be able to settle down in a convenient retreat where him himself would enjoy all necessary quietude; whilst we, Wareham and I, knowing him to be well screened from his enemies, would be less liable to those 'excursions and alarums' which had hitherto troubled us.

True, that in those days the experiment of a sea-faring life had often, even in instances which he recalled, brought forth fortune and an ability to settle down in peaceful competence in after life.

When I seen the black settle down to his work," he explained to Dan with another grin, "I knowed he'd nail him in the end an' I staked twenty on you agin my friend here!

But of them all only one species, and that a migratory one, the mallard, has been persuaded to abandon its wandering ways and settle down to a life of ease and obesity as a dependant of man.

I daresay we shall settle down well enough presently.

"I found iterdifficult to settle down to anything," I said, after an instant's hesitation.

So the balance swings this way and that, and neither scale will definitely settle down.

To be sure, one finds English spoken by more of the peasants than of the small aristocracy of the island, so many of the former have spent some years in American whale-ships, and come back to settle down with their savings in their native village.

Do let's settle down and be comfy together.

By the directions of Mephistopheles as to where these are to settle down, the locality is brought very clearly before our eyes.

Settle down in one nest on one tree (taking care That no cruel reptile can clamber up there); As it is with your lovers you're fairly perplext; One day you choose one bough, another the next.

She is young yet, and may settle down better by and by.

"Their owners always want to sell, and it's mighty kind of you and your son, butwell, I just couldn't settle down to be a country editor.

You're going to settle down and take up your future, see?" "Well, if you think I can." "I do!

And then he would abandon the old life and ways, become wholly English and settle down to make her life a happy walk through an enchanted valley.

I think I'll settle down here after a bit.

I watch the slow flakes, as they fall On bank and brier and broken wall; Over the orchard, waste and brown, All noiselessly they settle down, Tipping the apple-boughs, and each Light quivering twig of plum and peach.

So that is how the adoption of swine husbandry and a diet of pork compelled our nomad Celts to take the next step and settle down to agriculture.']

Or are you glad of the old womanly excuse for passing by the outside things, and will you now settle down to be as fine a mother as you were a chemist?

" "Must be the widow said yes and wants him to settle down and be a gentle farmer," decided Billy after a moment.

Iwe'll settle down on the Bridger place, if yuh still want me to.

He was just going to leave his work and find the Retch and settle down to a comfortable read, when he heard the hall door close.

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