"Beshrew" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Unknown, prithee kiss thou her bejewelled hand for me and by thy invincible blade renew my allegiance unto her sweet cause. Methinks her sunny locks and azure orbs do haunt my dreams, and anon I hear her silvery tones supplicating me to accept another arms. And I do lustily beshrew fate that these be ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... as he replied, "Beshrew thee for a false-hearted liar!" and passing onward, as if disdaining farther conference, he communed with his Moslem slaves in a language unknown to the bystanders. The poor Israelite seemed so staggered by the address of the military ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... vnciuill, and vniust extent Against thy peace. Go with me to my house, And heare thou there how many fruitlesse prankes This Ruffian hath botch'd vp, that thou thereby Mayst smile at this: Thou shalt not choose but goe: Do not denie, beshrew his soule for mee, He started one poore heart ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... 'twas not!) Common-sense was extinguished, and Good Taste Did wonder darkling on the verge of doom. I saw a Monster, a malign, marine, Mysterious, many-whorled, mug-lumbering Bogey, Stretched (like Miltonian angels on the marl) In league-long loops upon the billowy brine. Beshrew thee, old familiar ocean Bogey, Thou spectral spook of many Silly Seasons, Beshrew thee, and avaunt! Which being put In post-Shakspearian vernacular, means Confound, you, and Get out!!! The monstrous worm Wriggling its corkscrew ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 • Various
... heard tell." And so he drove away his clients, And people mocked his little science. To me that it may hap not so, Something of all things I will know. Not only writing will I do, But learn to practise physic too; Till men surprised will say, "Beshrew me, What good this painter's medicines do me!" Therefore hear and I will tell Some wise receipts to keep you well. A little drop of alkali, Is good to put into the eye; He who finds it hard to hear, Should mandel-oil put in his ear; And he who would from gout be free, Not wine ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore
... 'Beshrew my tongue that said so!' answered the counsellor; 'it will cost my ears a dinning.—Well, say in two words what you've got to ...
— Sir Walter Scott - A Lecture at the Sorbonne • William Paton Ker
... peer? What loveliest face, that loving ranks enfold. Like brightest diamond chased in purest gold? Dazzled and blind, mine office I forsake, My club, my Key, my knee, my homage take. Bright paragon, pass on in joy and bliss;— Beshrew the gate that opes not wide at such a ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor |
