"Nether" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... somewhat mysterious personality still vitally present to her. Later she had driven out to Pozzuoli. But neither stone-throwing urchins, foul and disease-stricken beggars, the pale sulphur plains and subterranean rumblings of the Solfaterra, nor stirring of nether fires therein resident by a lanky, wild-eyed lad—clothed in leathern jerkin and hairy, goatskin leggings—with the help of a birch broom and a few local newspapers, served effectually to rouse her ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... the nether Coomb, And Wingreen Hill above, And made the hollyhocks rags of bloom, My lord ...
— Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy
... the Lord James made no reply, but stood ruminating, with the forefinger of his left hand pressing his nether lip; then ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt
... raises the dead to life. Then follows a strange conversation between the giant and the saint. He was slain, he says, by his kinsmen, and ever since has been tormented in the other world. In that nether pit they know (he says) of the Holy Trinity: but that knowledge is rather harm than gain to them, because they did not choose to know it when alive on earth. Therefore he begs to be baptized, and so delivered from his pain. He is therefore ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley
... set in front of it under a new and unexpected light. But in the Tempest the scene is laid nowhere, or certainly in no country laid down on any map. Nowhere, then? At once nowhere and anywhere,—for it is in the soul of man, that still vexed island hung between the upper and the nether world, and liable to incursions from both. There is scarce a play of Shakespeare's in which there is such variety of character, none in which character has so little to do in the carrying on and development of the ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
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