"Meshed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... marsh is meshed with a million veins, That like as with rosy and silvery essences flow In the rose and silver evening glow. Farewell, my lord Sun! The creeks overflow; a thousand rivulets run 'Twixt the roots of the sod; the blades of the marsh grass stir; Passeth a hurrying sound of wings that westward ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
... need be done," she said haughtily. "Through this meshed tangle of treachery and dishonor there leads but one clean path. That ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers
... of the farmhouse, near the woodshed door, old dog Spot came to a halt before a two-storied cage, the front of which was covered with fine-meshed wire netting. ...
— The Tale of Grunty Pig - Slumber-Town Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey
... servant that he was not, he meshed gears silently and swung the car away to seek shelter, taking with him the sympathy as well as the wonder of the one witness of this bit of by-play who had been able to understand the tongue in which it was couched; and who, knowing ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... beheld, desire and lust thereof overcame him and he forgot that which he had seen of springes and of the sorry plight of all birds that fell into them. So he swooped down from the welkin and pouncing upon the piece of meat, was meshed in the same snare and could not win free. When the fowler came up and saw the Ossifrage taken in his toils he marvelled with exceeding marvel and said, 'I set up my nets, thinking to take therein pigeons and the like of small fowl; how came this Ossifrage ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
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