"Rising" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... teeming cane, The prairied West its heavy grain, And sunset's radiant gates unfold On rising marts and sands ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... household as agreeably, no quarrels or disturbances arise there. If any quarrel does arise he at once heals or settles the difference; and he has never let anyone leave his house in anger. His house seems blest indeed with a lucky fate, for none has lived there without rising to better fortune, and none has ever acquired a stain on his reputation there. One would be hard put to it to find any agree as well with their mothers as he with his stepmother—his father had already given him two, and he loved both of them as truly as he loved his mother. Recently ...
— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga
... they were rising to take leave, a tall, lanky man, stuck his long scraggy neck in at the cabin-door, and, in the ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... rose slowly, slowly, Through the tranquil air of morning, First a single line of darkness, Then a denser, bluer vapor, 35 Then a snow-white cloud unfolding, Like the tree-tops of the forest, Ever rising, rising, rising, Till it touched the top of heaven, Till it broke against the heaven, 40 And rolled outward all around it. From the Vale of Tawasentha, From the Valley of Wyoming, From the groves of Tuscaloosa, ...
— The Song of Hiawatha - An Epic Poem • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... an hour more. There were many instances of Glora's skill. We squeezed into a gully and waited until it widened; we leaped little expanding caverns; we slid down a smooth yellowish slide of rock like a child's toboggan, and saw it behind and over us, rising to become a great spreading ramp extending upward into the blue of the sky. Now, up there, little sailing white clouds were visible. And down where we stood it was deep twilight, queerly silvery ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various
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