"Envelope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at least the third letter I have written you, but my correspondence has a bad habit of not getting so far as the post. That which I possess of manhood turns pale before the business of the address and envelope. But I hope to be more fortunate with this: for, besides the usual and often recurrent desire to thank you for your work—you are one of four that have come to the front since I was watching and had a corner of my own to watch, and there is no reason, unless it be in these mysterious ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... entered his house. His servant was waiting for him. He brought him a blue envelope ...
— His Excellency the Minister • Jules Claretie
... bit askew, but her eyes weren't. In her white linen dress and apron and white cap, her little pink face looked to Petticoat's appraising glance like a postage stamp on an expanse of white linen envelope. ...
— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells
... Supreme Intelligence in the World, comes from an, 254-m. Egg producing worlds figures in all cosmogonies, 771-l. Egg represented the concavity of the celestial sphere enclosing all things, 663-l. Egg represented the world and its spherical envelope; symbolism, 400. Egg, symbol of the Universe, issues from the mouth of Kneph, 254-m. Egg symbolizes the double power, the active and the passive, 655-l. Egg symbolizes the two Unities, the Soul and the Intelligence, 415-u. Egg: various references to the sacred, 663-l. Egypt, judgment on the dead ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... inspect his armament and stores, don his harness, get into his heavy boots, scribble a couple of words to confide Baya to the prince, and slip a few bank-notes sprinkled with tears into the envelope, and then the dauntless Tarasconian rolled away in the stage-coach on the Blidah road, leaving the house to the negress, stupor-stricken before the pipe, the turban, and babooshes—all the Moslem shell of ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
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