"Di-" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attack the steamboat company. He felt vindictive, but his anger was all di-rected against the man who had ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... Lucia-di-Lammermoor. Mr. Green named her. Don't say 'doll'; call her by her proper name," answered the spoiled child, handing over the unfortunate waxen representative of a ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans
... ei-ther lay on the bare floor, near the big wood-fire, or else built a huge fire in the woods and lay close to it on the earth. They had to swim their hors-es o-ver streams; they shot wild deer and birds, and of-ten cooked and ate them, alone in the great wild woods, far from e-ven the camp of the In-di-ans. Once, at least, we know, from a little book in which each night George wrote of what they had done that day, that they saw a grand war-dance of the In-di-ans; the mu-sic by which they danced was made by a pot half full of wa-ter, with a deer-skin o-ver the top, and a gourd filled ...
— Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable • Jean S. Remy
... "Tra-de-ri-di-ra," exclaimed the artist, striking alternately with his knife a glass and a bottle, as if he were playing a triangle. "I must say that you choose madly gay subjects for conversation. We are truly a joyous crowd; look at Bergenheim opposite us; he looks like Macbeth ...
— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard
... he said; "she was coming up round the Dogs in a la-di-da fashion. Maybe she'll fly rockets ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
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