"Lately" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cow-eland, standing in the shade of a fine tree. It was evident that she had lately had her calf killed by a lion, for there were five long deep scratches on both sides of her hind-quarters, as if she had run to the rescue of her calf, and the lion, leaving it, had attacked herself, but was unable to pull her down. When lying on the ground, the milk flowing from the large udder ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... however, she was sorry that she had not come in quietly by way of her bedroom window and waited until she was sure that her mother was alone. For she found herself in the presence not only of the big brothers, but of him whose authority she had so lately flouted! ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... task—the work of compiling into a chronicle the history of Denmark, and by the authority of his constant admonition spurred my weak faculty to enter on a labour too heavy for its strength. For who could write a record of the deeds of Denmark? It had but lately been admitted to the common faith: it still languished as strange to Latin as to religion. But now that the holy ritual brought also the command of the Latin tongue, men were as slothful now as they were unskilled ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... affections, was the son of a respectable farmer residing in the neighbourhood of York. Originally designed for agricultural life, he had forsaken the plough to undertake a flourishing business, which had been commenced by an elder brother lately deceased: and being early converted to God, under the ministry of the venerable Sutcliffe, the proposed ...
— Religion in Earnest - A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York • John Lyth
... new type. It has only come up lately. They have had articles about it in the papers. That's the reason I told Mrs. Steuben ...
— Pandora • Henry James
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