"Asker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been given her because she had a good deal to do with wind and storm—and these wind witches are always so called. The surname was added because she was supposed to have come from Ysaetter swamp in Asker parish. ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof
... which he must commit himself irrevocably and publicly to more than he was prepared for. Every one is familiar with the proverbial distribution of parts in the asking and the answering of questions; but when the asker is no fool, but one of the sharpest-witted of mankind, asking with little consideration for the condition or the wishes of the answerer, with great power to force the answer he wants, and with no great tenderness in the use he makes ...
— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church
... is that it should change: that the man should be the asker and the woman the answerer. ...
— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence
... for Madeirans when he formed the barbarous project of diverting the Nile to the Red Sea. Their descendants are beggars from the cradle; but they beg with a good grace, and not with a curse or an insult like the European 'asker' when refused: moreover, the mendicant pest is not now over-prevalent. In the towns they cheat and pilfer; they gamble in the streets; they drink hard on Saturdays and Sundays, and at times they murder one another. Liquor ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Vol. I • Richard F. Burton
... makes mention (vol. i. 94) of Kalandars or religious mendicants, a term popularly corrupted, even in writing, to Karandal.[FN179] Here again "Kalandar" may be due only to the scribes as the Bresl. Edit. reads Sa'aluk asker, beggar. The Khan al-Masrur in the Nazarene Broker's story (i. 265) was a ruin during the early ninth century A.H. A.D. 1420; but the Bab Zuwaylah (i. 269) dates from A.D. 1087. In the same tale occurs the Darb al-Munkari (or Munakkari) which is probably the Darb al-Munkadi of Al-Makrizi's careful ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... off." Said he, "Let me see her." So she brought her to him, and he was ravished by her and married her and went in unto her; and begat upon her a son. Now this was the woman who had given two scones as an alms to the asker, and whose hands had been cut off therefor; and when the King married her, her fellow-wives envied her and wrote to the common husband that she was an unchaste, having just given birth to the boy; ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... darling, who engages To say, I do believe in God? The question put to priests or sages: Their answer seems as if it sought To mock the asker. ...
— Faust • Goethe
... to her, to my Enanthe welcome. Who now will to my burning kisses stoope, Now with an easie cruelty deny That which she, rather then the asker, would Have forced from her then begin[16] her selfe. Their loves that list upon great Ladies set; I still will love the ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... thy gate is roughly fastened, and the asker turns away, Thence he bears thy good deeds with him, and his ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... government towards the mission and its friends, at this time, was very unsatisfactory. Asker Khan, a general in the Persian army, was appointed to investigate the truth of certain charges brought by the papists against the American missionaries, and early evinced a most unfriendly feeling ...
— History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. • Rufus Anderson
... saying that all the facts should be stated at once. That would be absurd. The question asked should be answered as simply as possible, the parent remembering that children's questions are usually more profound to the hearer than to the asker. It is difficult for the adult not to read into the child's chance question all the profundity of his own years of experience, and the mother who approaches this subject with dread is almost invariably astonished and relieved to find how easily the ...
— The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young • Margaret Warner Morley |
