"Really" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the shepherd boy and from his valley and his song, let us go on without any more poetry or parable to look our own selves full in the face and to ask our own hearts whether they are the hearts of really humble-minded and New Testament men or no. Dr. Newman, "that subtle, devout man," as Dr. Duncan calls him, says that "humility is one of the most difficult of virtues both to attain and to ascertain. It lies," he says, "close upon the heart itself, and its tests ...
— Bunyan Characters (Second Series) • Alexander Whyte
... think he really meant it. I want my boys to love their country, and be ready to fight for it. Much as I should hate to part with them, if they are needed, they may go; but I don't like to have them run away and leave me in this mean way. I shouldn't feel half so bad if I knew Thomas ...
— The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army - A Story of the Great Rebellion • Oliver Optic
... profound sensation among the auditory; and though perhaps not one of them really believed the story, no one dared to ...
— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid
... Polly, holding him with her brown eyes, "do you really mean that you are glad to give up that big evening party, and have the little teeny one in ...
— Five Little Peppers Midway • Margaret Sidney
... and scanty things! The true latitude of the way of the flesh is not great, for it is all enclosed within poor, lean, narrow, created objects, but because the imagination of men supplies what is wanting really, and fancies an infinite or boundless extent of goodness in these things, therefore the sinner walks easily, without straitening to his flesh,—it is not pinched in this way of fleshly lusts. But, alas! the spirit is wofully straitened, fettered, and imprisoned, ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
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