"Represented" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... October, 1883, a meeting of delegates from local Unions was held in Montreal for the purpose of organizing a Provincial Union for the Province of Quebec. Thirty-five delegates were present; encouraging reports were given from the different Unions represented, showing a total membership of about 1,000, and a Provincial Union was at once organized with the following officers:— President, Mrs. Middleton, Quebec; first Vice-President, Mrs. Dunkin, Knowlton; second ...
— Why and how: a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada • Addie Chisholm
... come! Now draws nigh the happy moment! Soon there will be fulfilled in you the admirable words of Simoun—'I live, and yet not I alone, but the Captain-General liveth in me.'" The Captain-General the patron of his son! True, he had not attended the ceremony, where Don Custodio had represented him, but he would come to dine, he would bring a wedding-gift, a lamp which not even Aladdin's—between you and me, Simoun was presenting the lamp. Timoteo, what more ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... massy walls of the edifice, her melancholy spirits represented it to be her prison; and she started as at a new suggestion, when she considered how far distant she was from her native country, from her little peaceful home, and from her only friend—how remote was her hope of happiness, how ...
— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe
... termed the moral life of man. Alluding to our natural existence, Addison, in a sublime allegory well known to your Lordship, has represented us as crossing an immense bridge, from whose surface from a variety of causes we disappear one after another, and are seen no more. Every one who enters upon public life has such a bridge to pass. Some ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... City; and the Divs have for their dwelling Ahermambad, or Ahriman's city, in which there are enchanted castles and palaces, guarded by terrible monsters and powerful magicians. The Peris are very beautiful beings, usually represented as women with wings, and charming robes of all colours. The Divs are painted as demons of the most frightful kind. One of them, a very famous one named Berkhyas, is described as being a mountain in size, his face ...
— Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning • John Thackray Bunce
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