"Deb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disentangle them. The lovely pastoral landscapes which I know by heart, have been copied, field for field and tree for tree, and these you will immediately recognize. Many of you will have no difficulty in detecting the originals of Sandy Flash and Deb. Smith; a few will remember the noble horse which performed the service I have ascribed to Roger; and the descendants of a certain family will not have forgotten some of the pranks of Joe and Jake Fairthorn. Many more than these particulars are drawn ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor
... il mio Cor Gi seppe amarti; Or' che t cangi amor Io ti disprezzo; Se cangio il mio desir, Di m deb' non Lagnarti; L' offese a non soffrir, E il petto auvezze. ...
— Amadigi di Gaula - Amadis of Gaul • Nicola Francesco Haym
... forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." Seward's Works, new edition, 1884, iv. 292. But Seward ranked among the extremists and the agitators. See Lincoln and Douglas Deb. 244. After all, the idea had already found expression in the Richmond Enquirer, May 6, 1856, quoted by von Hoist, vi. 299, also referred to by Lincoln; see Lincoln ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse
... ye! I—" The old crone was about to continue her forebodings; but Dirk interposed with a gruff, "Hush ye, hush ye, Mother Deb! ye be doin' the lad wrong. D'ye think he be one to teach our young uns wrong, eh? Be it evil, think ye? W'u'd he be doin' us a bad turn who's mendin' the housen an' makin' us comf'table? I'd like ye ter ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord
... hands under the pump, Deb! Upon my soul, if the London folk only knowed of thee and thy slovenly ways, they'd swaller their milk and butter more mincing than they do a'ready; and ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy |
