"Of import" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... look so. I Will to the door. It cannot be of import 170 In this lone spot of wintry desolation:— The very desert saves man from mankind. [She goes to ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... and industrial impulse is world-wide. It is a matter of import to every people. None may be careless of it. To do so is to perish. It is become a battle, the fruits of which are to the strong, and to none but the strongest of the strong. As the movement approaches its maximum, centralization accelerates ...
— War of the Classes • Jack London
... which touched the heart of humanity, could appeal to the days of the Revolution, when "our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty." The colonists believed that they were fighting for something of import to all mankind, and the nation which ...
— Washington and his Comrades in Arms - A Chronicle of the War of Independence • George Wrong
... Wazir, who thereupon forbade her, fearing her slaughter. However, she repeated her words to him a second time and a third, but he consented not. Then he cited to her a parable, which should deter her, and she cited to him a parable of import contrary to his, and the debate was prolonged between them and the adducing of instances, till her father saw that he was powerless to turn her from her purpose and she said to him, "There is no help but that I marry ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... forgave, and to which his subsequent banishment of Winchelsea was due. In 1303, and again the year after, Edward, in desperate straits for money, levied, by agreement with the foreign merchants, some new customs—the beginning of import duties, without consent of the estates, and collected a tallage from the royal demesne; and again, in 1305, he obtained from Clement V. a formal absolution from the obligations of 1297. It is true that the first two measures were contrary to the spirit rather than the letter of his promise, and ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various
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