"Leese" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a sort of military station. The capture proved to be a very simple matter. Thirty-two or thirty-three men appeared at dawn, before Vallejo's house, under Merritt and Semple. They entered the house suddenly, called upon Jacob Leese, Vallejo's son-in-law, to interpret, and demanded immediate surrender. Richman says "Leese was surprised at the 'rough looks' of the Americans. Semple he describes as 'six feet six inches tall, and about fifteen ...
— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White
... by her wille, without leese, Everi man shulde be seke, And though they die, they settle ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... love of hivin, look what she had in her girdle! Shure it's Leese's own scarf, I tell ye—the Frenchwoman ...
— An Apache Princess - A Tale of the Indian Frontier • Charles King
... He did say unto Peter, 'Louest thou me more than these?' let thine answer be his, 'Che, Lord, Thou woost that I loue Thee!' [John xxi. 15.] Oh count not aught too rare or too brave for to give Christ! 'He that loueth his lyf schal leese it; and he that hatith his lyf in this world, kepith it unto everlastinge lyf.' [John xii. 25.] No man loseth by that chepe [exchange, bargain] of life worldly for life everlasting. Never shall the devils have leave to say, 'Behold here a man who ...
— Mistress Margery • Emily Sarah Holt |
