"Feste" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sent for him. Some kind of a gabble-fest on the star-star level, I gather. Otherwise we're almost ready to blast. And we know what kind of ...
— Plague Ship • Andre Norton
... crauen. 420 Josep gaf ilc here twinne srud. Beniamin most he made prud. | fif weden best bar beniamin. [f. 46v re hundred plates of silu{er} fin. Al{}so fele ore or til. 425 He bad ben in is faderes wil. And .x. asses wi semes fest. Of alle egiptes welhe best. Gaf he is breere wi herte blie. And bad hem rapen hem homward swie. 430 And he so deden wi herte fagen. Toward here fader he gunen dragen. And q{u}ane he comen him bi{}foren. Ne wiste he nogt q{u}at he woren. Lou{er}d he seiden israel. 435 Josep in sune ...
— Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 - Part I: Texts • Various
... always had recourse as the best means of raising my spirits so soon as interruptions were removed. One night I was disturbed by a strange event. The evening had been pleasant, and I had sketched out the pretty theme for Pogner's Anrede, 'Das schone Fest Johannistag,' etc., when, while I was dozing off and still had this tune floating in my mind, I was suddenly awakened to full consciousness by an unrestrained outburst of a woman's laughter above my room. This laughter, growing madder and ...
— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner
... triumphantly, 'I telled ye sae! Not ae word aboot the puir lad's sins! It was a' a hurry an' a scurry to get the new shune upo' 'im, an' win at the calfie an' the fiddlin' an' the dancin'.—O Lord,' he broke out, 'I'm comin' hame as fest 's I can; but my sins are jist like muckle bauchles (shoes down at heel) upo' my feet and winna lat me. I expec' nae ring and nae robe, but I wad fain hae a fiddle i' my grup when the neist prodigal comes hame; an' gin I dinna fiddle weel, it s' no be my wyte.—Eh, man! but that ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... synes Eder det herskesygt af Caesar—naar de Arme skreeg, saa graed Caesar—Herskesyge maate dog vel vaeves af staerkere Stof.—Dog Brutus siger han var herskesyg; og Brutus er en hederlig Mand. I have alle seet at jeg paa Pans Fest tre Gange tilbod ham en kongelig Krone, og at han tre Gange afslog den. Var det herskesygt?—Dog Brutus siger han var herskesyg, og i Sandhed, han er en hederlig Mand. Jeg taler ikke for at gjendrive det, som ...
— An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway • Martin Brown Ruud
... thing I ever saw; and wasn't she game? Alice will cry for weeks over this. Why, it's the sob-fest of her lifetime. She's bursting with grief and rapture. I hope your wife can keep a secret better than mine, otherwise there will be a tremendous commotion before to-morrow's sun sets. I suppose now I'll have to hang around home with my finger on my lip, saying 'Hist!' until the ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... feiern wir das hoh' Fest Mit Herzens Freud' und Wonne, Das uns der Herr scheinen laesst, Er ist selber die Sonne, Der durch seiner Gnaden Glanz Erleucht't uns're Herzen ganz, Der Suenden Nacht ...
— The Hymns of Martin Luther • Martin Luther
... and to vindicate the truth of history, by saying that it was I who placed the motto there. Calling his attention one day to the scroll and to the need of an inscription, I suggested a translation of the old German motto, "Treu und Fest''; and, as he made no objection, I wrote it out for the stone- cutters, but told Mr. Cornell that there were people, perhaps, who might ...
— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White
... Spike called, "this ain't goin' to be no a la carte, hock an' claret feedin' match, nor yet no table-de-hoty eat-fest, but if you can do in some bacon ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... Ruf wie Donnerhall, Wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall; Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein, Wer will die Stroemes Hueter sein? Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein, Fest steht und ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence
... but passers-by. The history of the Jornado, of indwellers named and known, begins with six Americans, as follows: Sandoval, a Mexican; Toussaint, a Frenchman; Fest, a German; Martin, a German; Roullier, a Swiss; and Teagardner, ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... Come ooks, years, a' Time's clan: Ye're welcome: I'm no a bit scornin! Tak me til him as fest as ye can. Come awa, nicht an' mornin, Ye are wings o' ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... each beer-haus mit crape vas oopdone, Vhen dey read in de papers dat Breitmann vas gone; Und de Dootch all cot troonk oopon lager und wein, At the great Trauer-fest of de Turner Verein. Dere vas wein - en mit weinen ven beoplesh did dink Dat Sherman's great Sharman cood nefer more trink. Und in Villiam Shtreet veepin' und vailen' vas hoor'd, Pecause der Hans Breitmann vas ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... astrologers in ages past, but the prophecies of many melancholy heads in these present; who, neither understanding reasonably things past nor present, pretend a know- ledge of things to come; heads ordained only to mani- fest the incredible effects of melancholy and to fulfil old prophecies,* rather than be the authors of new. "In those days there shall come wars and rumours of wars" to me seems no prophecy, but a constant truth in all times verified since it was pronounced. "There shall be signs in the moon and ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne
... nicht dumm, Und thaten oft was wir nicht sollten; Doch jetzo kehrt sich alles um und um, Und eben da wir's fest erhalten wollten." ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... fest was noble ynow, and nobliche y-do [done]; For mony was the faire ledy, that y-come was thereto. Yguerne, Gorloys wyf, was fairest of echon [each one], That was contasse of Cornewail, for so fair was there non." ROBERT ...
— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber
... in no hits on either side. It looked very much as though the game might turn out to be a pitchers' duel. Some people like that sort of battle royal, but in the main the spectators would much rather see a regular old-fashioned batting fest, especially if it is their side that is doing most of ...
— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton
... they had thought to have a good "talk-fest," as Bess called it. But alas! both were so tired out that they fell asleep almost before they knew it. And neither woke up until morning, when they were rolling into New ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr
... what happened," she begged. "I'm all at sea, what of you two burleys breaking my husband's arms, then seeing him home and holding a love-fest with him." ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
... mind, even as in optics we see painted on the retina the image which becomes visible to the senses. The action of so-called mortal mind must be 400:27 destroyed by the divine Mind to bring out the harmony of being. Without divine control there is discord, mani- fest ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... a tale of Robin Hood. Here once more we find an old story being used again, for we have already heard of Robin Hood in the ballads. Robin Hood makes a great fest to all the shepherds and shepherdesses round about. All are glad to come, save one Aeglamon, the Sad Shepherd, whose love, Earine, has, he believes, been drowned. But later in the play we learn that Earine is not dead, but that a wicked witch, Mother Maudlin, ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... lo dorch Storm un Wettergeriesel? Das is der Schrauber auf seime Isel. Der Hut is gebunne fest unner dem Kinne, Der Musterranze bammelt ...
— The German Element in Brazil - Colonies and Dialect • Benjamin Franklin Schappelle
... here an hard request, And resonable, a lady for to werne! Now, nece myn, by natal Ioves fest, 150 Were I a god, ye sholde sterve as yerne, That heren wel, this man wol no-thing yerne But your honour, and seen him almost sterve, And been so looth to ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... all must sleep in grim repose, Collected in the silent tomb; The old, the young, with friends and foes, Fest'ring ...
— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron
... nicht dumm, Und thaten oft was wir nicht sollten; Doch jetzo kehrt sich alles um und um, Und eben da wir's fest erhalten wollten.' ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow |
