"Bossy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from afar! now be ye men, my friends, 135 Now summon all the fury of your might! I go to charge our senators and wives That they address the Gods with prayers and vows For our success, and hecatombs devote. So saying the Hero went, and as he strode 140 The sable hide that lined his bossy shield Smote on his neck and on his ancle-bone. And now into the middle space between Both hosts, the son of Tydeus and the son Moved of Hippolochus, intent alike 145 On furious combat; face to face they stood, And thus heroic Diomede began. Most noble Champion! who of human ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... He says: "The primary condition is that the mass shall be beautifully rounded, and disposed with due discretion and order;... sculpture is essentially the production of a pleasant bossiness or roundness of surface. The pleasantness of that bossy condition to the eye is irrespective of imitation on one side, and of structure on the other." The more one considers this statement, the more he is convinced of its comprehensiveness. If the lights and shadows ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... be tall, probably, and raw-boned—that domineering, "bossy" type he always associated with women who assumed men's jobs—harsh-voiced and more than a trifle hard. He dwelt particularly on her hardness, for surely no other sort of woman could possibly have helped to engineer the crooked deal which Andrew Thorne and his daughter had so ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... allay. And first, the great glory whose running is to fill the East, like an unsetting sun, tell me of it; for, as we all know, glory is of various kinds; there is one kind reserved for poets, orators, and professors cunning in the arts, and another for cheer of such as find delight in swords and bossy shields, and armor well bedight, and in horses, and who exult in battle, and in setting armies afield, in changing boundary lines, and in taking rest and giving respite in the citadels of towns happily assaulted. And as of these the regard is various, ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace
... ZELIE: I have not written before because there was nothing of interest to tell you. We are getting on very well, though I think Joanna is too bossy, and mammy is nearly as bad. But we have been pretty good on the whole. Cousin Helen was not going to let Aleck stay Friday night, for fear he would cut up, but Father said, "Nonsense!" so he came. We had a better ...
— The Story of the Big Front Door • Mary Finley Leonard |
