"Leaf" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leaf driven to and fro? Why will ye pursue the dry stubble? Why will ye write bitter words against me, and make me possess the ...
— Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8 • Samuel Richardson
... every guarantee of their pulling together more happily in future; he has repented and promised to turn over a new leaf. So has she. Very well! Here's my hand, let's begin again at the beginning. Birds of a feather flock together. There's nothing lost, we've both been fools! You, little Nora, were badly brought up. I, old rascal, didn't ...
— Married • August Strindberg
... library, which he presented to Cicero. It was in Greece at the time, and Cicero thus writes to Atticus: "If you love me and feel sure of my love for you, use all the endeavours of your friends, clients, acquaintances, freedmen, and even slaves to prevent a single leaf from being lost.... Every day I find greater satisfaction in study, so far as my forensic labours permit[37]." At this period of his life Cicero spent much time in study at his estates near Tusculum, ...
— Academica • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... thou shalt note, lying lower, hard by the first: thou couldest send an arrow across. And thereon is a great fig-tree growing, in fullest leaf, and beneath it mighty Charybdis sucks down black water, for thrice a day she spouts it forth, and thrice a day she sucks it down in terrible wise. Never mayest thou be there when she sucks the water, for none ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.
... to prevail)—Ver. 9. The remainder of this Fable is lost. It is supposed to have been torn out of the MS. of the writings of Phaedrus by some pious monk, who, objecting to the following Fable, destroyed the leaf which contained the latter part of the present one, as well as some part of the next. Orellius considers the lines ending with "obscoenitas" as the fragment of a Fable ...
— The Fables of Phdrus - Literally translated into English prose with notes • Phaedrus
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