"Charmer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Latin, I'll have him a little longer before mine own eyes, To nurse him and feed him with tarts and mince-pies; We'll send him to school when the weather is warmer; Come kiss me, my pretty, my sweet little charmer!" But now I must banish all fun and all folly, So doleful's the news I am going to tell ye: Poor Wade, my schoolfellow, lies low in the gravel, One month ere fifteen put an end to his travel; Harmless and ...
— Pot-Boilers • Clive Bell
... goose"—and I certainly am a goose, I reflected—"that may lay a golden egg." But my allusion was lost upon him, and I saw my charmer touch her forehead significantly, as though to imply to Croppo that I was weak in the ...
— Fashionable Philosophy - and Other Sketches • Laurence Oliphant
... are to consult the police in order to get a clue to your charmer," he yawned. "Nice friends you pickup on ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... roll'd, The Count, and his Bride, and her Leg of Gold— That faded charm to the charmer! Away,—through old Brentford rang the din Of wheels and heels, on their way to win That hill, named after one of her kin, The Hill of the ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... This Nut will sometimes go winding hither and thither, and sometimes will stand still. Then they follow their Charms, strewing on Blossoms, and that sets it forward again. This is not enough to find the Thief guilty; but if they intend to prosecute the Man upon this Discovery, the Charmer must swear against him point blank: which he sometimes will do upon the Confidence of the Truth of his Charm. And the supposed Thief must either Swear ...
— An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies • Robert Knox
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