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1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Praeludium sig. A4^v I would I knew how to get off with any indifferent Grace: Here take your Cloake, and promise some satisfaction in your Prologue. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 126 They fought together, but Auffidius got off . View more context for this quotation

1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely iv. 61 The Right Wing of the Christian Army, having..abandoned its attack..gave opportunity to the Janizaries..to get off on this side.

1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 13 Apr. (1948) I. 242 I sent my excuses, adorned with about thirty compliments, and got off as fast as I could.

1749 W. Dodwell Free Answer 109 I was wondering..how he would get off of this difficulty.

1837 W. T. Moncrieff Sam Weller ii. iv. 23 I have strange misgivings—this letter that I've received from my landlady, calling upon me to fulfil my promise of marrying her..troubles me—I must get off of it somehow.

a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. xi. 232 An alarm was given that the soldiers were in pursuit; they..got off to a different part of the forest, before the little pursuing detachment came.

1871 J. E. Cooke Out of Foam i. vii. 49 ‘Now is the time to get off,’ whispered the gypsy. ‘No: now is the time to discover more,’ returned Earle, coolly.

1913 W. New Eng. Mag. Oct. 420/1 They'll slip out of sight, and even if you foller their tracks for days they'll get off.

1983 Irish Times 18 June (Weekend section) 7/3 Will they get off to safety in time?

1991 W. Reynolds in V. LoBrutto Sel. Takes ii. 25 At that point I called Warren and said, ‘As this is the procedure she is going to follow, you don't need three editors anymore, can I go?’ That's how I got off of it.