"Webb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... French officer who was attached to some of our troops as interpreter. He had spent two years before the war at Cambridge. There perhaps, more probably elsewhere, he had been taught that Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb are the most influential people in England, and that Mr. H. G. Wells, though not from a purely literary point of view a great writer, is the most profound philosopher in the world. He deeply lamented the fact that compulsory military service had ...
— A Padre in France • George A. Birmingham
... table, on the General's left] A woman has no right to refuse motherhood. That is clear, after the statistics given in The Times by Mr Sidney Webb. ...
— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw
... court that Deborah Gannett enlisted under the name of Robert Shurtleff, in Captain Webb's company in the Fourth Massachusetts regiment, on May 21, 1782, and did actually perform the duties of a soldier in the late army of the United States to the twenty-third day of October, 1783, for which ...
— The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees • Mary Caroline Crawford
... of the repulsive tradition communicated by Lord Webb Seymour to Walter Scott, the murder ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... the midst of temptations with such firm integrity, in the midst of party spirit as much superior to its influence as mortal man could be! and if sympathy with his friends, and the sense that public men must pull together to effect any purpose may, as Lord Webb Seymour asserts, have swayed Horner, or biased him a little from his original theoretic course, still it never was from any selfish or in the slightest degree corrupt or unworthy motive. I much admire Lord Webb Seymour's letter to Horner, and not less Horner's candid, ...
— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth
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