"Shote" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... earthly Scaffold. To them, I will orderly recite, describe & declare a great Number of Artes, from our two Mathematicall fountaines, deriued into the fieldes of Nature. Wherby, such Sedes, and Rotes, as lye depe hyd in the ground of Nature, are refreshed, quickened, and prouoked to grow, shote vp, floure, and giue frute, infinite, and incredible. And these Artes, shalbe such, as vpon Magnitudes properties do depende, more, then vpon Number. And by good reason we may call them Artes, and Artes Mathematicall Deriuatiue: for (at this ...
— The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara • John Dee
... arcenier GVysebert the bowemaker 24 Fait les arcs et les sagettes; Maketh the bowes & the arowes; Les arblastriers trayent. The arblastrers shote. Gerard le moulenier, Gherard the myllar, Selon ce quon dist, After that men saye, 28 Emble le moytie Steleth the half Du bled ou de farine[2] Of corn or of mele De ceulx qui luy Of them that to hym Apportent a mieuldre. Brynge ...
— Dialogues in French and English • William Caxton
... affectiones, whiche I my selffe prouyd very ofte. Ogy. Ye trewly there be some so gyue to our blessyd lady, that whan thay apere to put vpe thayr handes to offre, with a pure cousyance, thay stayl that whiche other men hathe gyuen. Me. Than || lett no man be there, wyll nat oure Lady shote her thonderbowlte at suche. Ogy. Wherfor shuld our lady rather doo so, than God hymselffe, whom thay be nat affrayd to pluke owt hys robes, & breake ye churche walles therfore. Mene. I am in a great doubt whether I shuld, rather maruayle apon ...
— The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion • Desiderius Erasmus
... earth, full of Rockes and stones, suting therethrough, the nature onely of some speciall fishes, of which kind are, Minowes, Shoats, Eeles, and Lampreys. The rest are common to other Shires, but the Shote in a maner peculiar to Deuon and Cornwall: in shape and colour he resembleth the Trowt: howbeit in bignesse and goodnesse, commeth farre behind him. His baites are flies and Tag-wormes, which the Cornish English terme Angle-touches. Of the ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew
... his tax list and flewed from the house, but returned with minions of the law who seized on and sold her shote she wuz fattin' for winter's use; sold it to the saloon keeper over to Zoar for about half what it wuz worth, only jest enough to pay her tax. But then the saloon keeper controlled a lot of bum votes and the collector wanted ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley
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