"Nott" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the whole truthe, and all the intimasies we ever hadde, to speake off. But I beleefe we should have been better acquainted, hadd you nott, luckily for mee! prevented itt, by being at home, when we thought you abroad. For I was to come to her when shee hemm'd two or three times; for having made a contract, you knowe. Madam, it was naturall enough to take the first occasion to ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... colleague, Clarkson Nott Potter, from the Westchester district, entered the House at forty-four years of age. The son of bishop Alonzo Potter and grandson of Peter Nott of Union College, he had the right by inheritance to the talents with which he was endowed. After leaving college ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... This name is also local, from knot, a hillock, and has of course become confused (Variant Spellings, Chapter III) with the nickname Nott, with ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley
... common, until lately, in the island of Tahiti, and other places in the South Pacific Ocean. When the missionaries of the London Missionary Society went there, many years ago, they found the females in a very degraded situation. Mr. Nott, one of these missionaries, declared that three out of four of the children were murdered as soon as they were born. He met a woman soon after this dreadful crime had been abolished to whom he said, "How many ...
— Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. • Dr. John Scudder
... Sig. Niksich, siege of Njegush Nooning, The, plan of Norich, Mr. Normandy North Conway, N.H. Norton, Charles Eliot, first meets Stillman contributes to The Crayon friendship with Stillman brief mentions of Nott, Mrs., wife of President Nott Nott, Eliphalet, President of ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman
... all, perhaps, her present owner and possessor, Mr. Abner Nott. For by the irony of circumstances, Mr. Nott was a Far Western farmer who had never seen a ship before, nor a larger stream of water than a tributary of the Missouri River. In a spirit, half of fascination, half of speculation, he had bought her at the time of her abandonment, and ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... long time with sundry Excuses, one day hee explained himself, saying I should bring my wife over into france if I expected that a full confidence should bee put in mee. I represented unto him that it was nott a thing fully in my power to doe, my wife's father refusing to give me the Liberty of bringing her over into france; but I promiss'd him to use my best endeavors to that effect. In the meantime Monsr. Colbert intimated ...
— Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson • Peter Esprit Radisson |
