"Gar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... either. I'm too flat-chisted for a mermaid, and I'd have no time to lave off gurglin' for the hair-combin' act, which, Chickie, to me notion is as issential to a mermaid as the curves. I'd be a sucker, the biggest sucker in the Gar-hole, Chickie bird. I'd be an all-day sucker, be gobs; yis, and an all-night sucker, too. Come to think of it, Chickie, be domn if I'd be a sucker at all. Look at the mouths of thim! Puckered up with ...
— At the Foot of the Rainbow • Gene Stratton-Porter
... rpondait de sa voix douce: "Que veux-tu, mon ami? cela passera en grandissant; son ge, j'tais comme lui." En attendant, Jacques grandissait; il grandissait beaucoup mme, et cela ne lui passait pas. Tout au contraire, la singulire aptitude qu'avait cet trange garon rpandre sans raison des averses de larmes allait chaque jour en augmentant. Aussi la dsolation de nos parents lui fut une grande fortune.... C'est pour le coup qu'il s'en donna de sangloter son aise des journes entires, sans que ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... und nachdem man Mutter ist, ist Man ein Mensch; die muetterliche Bestimmung aber, oder gar die heeliche, kann nicht die menschliche ueberwiegen oder ersetzen, sondern sie muss das Mittel, nicht der Zweck derselben sein."—J.P.F. Richter: Levana, ...
— Women and the Alphabet • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... hos ho ophis Euan exepatesen en te panourgia autou]), places the invisible cause of the temptation in the background, and speaks of the visible one only. But that behind the serpent he beholds Satan, appears immediately from ver. 14 and 15: [Greek: Kai ou thaumaston. autos gar ho Satanas metaschematizetai eis angelon photos. Ou mega oun ei kai hoi diakonoi autou metaschematizontai hos diakonoi dikaiosunes], where the [Greek: metaschematizetai] is explained by Bengel: "Transformat se: Praesens, i.e., solet se transformare. ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
... I said, shaking him warmly by the hand, "this is indeed a day. Crocuses! And in the front gar—on the South Lawn! Let us go ...
— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne
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