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adv. quickly, with haste
Usage examples of "for it".
If he hadn't died in the nick of time, that unhung murderous villain, Maurice Frere, would have come in for it.
In any case, evil is so much easier to believe in than good, for it is so much easier to do and to see.
Gabbett--for it was he--passed one great hand over his face, and leaning exactly in the position in which Troke placed him, scowled, bewildered, at his visitors.
Emerging from out a sort of cell, or den, contrived by nature or art in the side of the cliff, he threw on a scanty fire, which burned between two hollowed rocks, a small log of pine wood, and then returning to his cave, and bringing from it an iron pot, which contained water, he scooped with his toil-hardened hands a resting-place for it in the ashes, and placed it on the embers.
Dawes had asked him for this flower, offering two days' rations for it.
Sometimes, if the relations wailed and hallelujahed enough, and the Born Agains agitated for it, the Rev left the Born Agains with their folks, and got out of town before corruption set in.
They won't let 'em come all the way, because they are such a desperate lot, they might make a rush for it.
Vickers had seen it she would probably have been angry, for it was nothing less than the captain's brandy-flask.
Vetch suggests that Oyster Bay cannot be far to the eastward--the line of ocean is deceitfully close--and though such a proceeding will take them out of their course, they resolve to make for it.
They had a hell of a job rigging a hitch for it on the Monster without bashing those beautiful chrome pipes, and it took a half hour to figure a way to get the big right-hand rearview mounted, and when he took off he was one hell of a sight.
Once something was done, you didn't have to feel guilty for it anymore.
As I was reaching for her the phone rang and I reached for it instead.