"Om" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "To—om! To—om!" cried the elderly woman, with a long, unnatural, penetrating call that chilled her son to the marrow. He quickly pulled on his boots ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... Lotus-Gods; the second of the eighteen Hindoo Puranas is styled the Padma Purana, because it treats of the "epoch when the world was a golden Lotus"; and the sacred incantation which goes murmuring through Thibet is "Om mani padme houm." It would be singular, if upon these delicate floating leaves a fragment of our earliest vernacular has been borne down to us, so that here the schoolboy is more ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various
... it wah t' rest. I jes wok all de time f'om mawnin' till late at night. I had t' do ebbathin' dey wah t' do on de outside. Wok in de field, chop wood, hoe cawn, till sometime I feels lak mah back sholy break. I done ebbathin' 'cept split rails. Yo' know, dey split rails back in dem ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various
... ol' shin-bones stan' up thess like a pair o' dog-irons. Lemme bridge 'em over first 'th somethin' soft. That'll do. She patched that quilt herself. Hold on a minute, 'tel I git the aidges of it under my ol' boots, to keep it f'om saggin' ...
— Sonny, A Christmas Guest • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... so'thin'; but I says to Ma, w'en Helen 'Lizy lef' home, 'don't ye be one mite afeard,' I says, 'but what them bright eyes'll outshine the peaked city gals.' Guess they have, sort o', eh, Sis; f'om what John's been writin'?" ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark
... fu'nitua and all! Hea. In P'inchesta! I've made up my mind to sit unda you—as they say in Clapham. I've come 'ight down he' fo' good. I've taken a little house—oh! a sweet little house that will be all over 'oses next month. I'm living f'om 'oom to 'oom and having the othas done up. It's in that little quiet st'eet behind you' ga'den wall. ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells
... to Tom, yafter firs' temptin' him wid nice pieces ob salt junk. I nab neber seen ole Tom myself, sah, but dey say dat he is 'round heah yet. Lucinda Nelson, de great fortune tellah an hoodoo 'oman done tole me dat Tom's now livin' in a big ware-house down in ole Jamaica an' dat he sel'om comes out 'cause he's getting' quite ole. Ole Jamaica, yo' mus' remembah, sah, is fifteen fathom below de ocean now. Great earthquake come up one night an' swallowed de whole town an only a few yeahs ago, when de watah was right cleah, yo' could see de tops ob some ob de houses ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... der Strasse Davis. The Danish Government, conceiving that its intentions were misrepresented by this work, procured a reply to be written by Niels Horrebow, and this was published, in 1752, under the title of Tilforladelige Efterretninger om Island; in 1758, an English translation appeared in London. The object of the author was to answer all Anderson's charges and imputations. This Horrebow did categorically, and hence come these Chapters, though it must be added that they owe their laconic celebrity to the English translator, ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... by reciting the sacred verse,[FN156] "Let us meditate on the supreme splendour (or adorable light) of that Divine Ruler (the sun) who may illuminate our understandings. Venerable men, guided by the intelligence, salute the divine sun (Sarvitri) with oblations and praise. Om!" ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton
... grand dans les petitesses, petit dans les grandeurs, selon le mot du grand Jefferson. On ne l'aime pas dans la Societe, mais on le respecte et on le craint. Il n'y a qu'un mot pour ce membre audessus de "Bylaws." Ce mot est pour lui ce que l'Om est aux Hundous. C'est sa religion; il n'y a rien audela. Ce mot la c'est ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... by Mr. Hodgson to the Bodleian Library Oxford (Hodgson 3). It begins with: Om namo ratnatrayaya. Om namah sarvabuddhabodhisattvebhyah, etc. Then Evam maya srutam, etc. It ends with sukhavativyuhamahayanasutram samaptam. (Nepalese ...
— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller
... willingness to submit to commands. o bliged', forced; compelled. oc'cu pied, taken possession of; employed. of'fi cer, one who holds an office. off'ing, a part of the sea at a distance from the shore. om'ni bus es, large, four-wheeled carriages. on'ion (un'yun), a root much used for food. out'posts, advanced stations, as of an army. o ver come', affected; overpowered ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes
... chimbley crook-necks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The old queen's-arm that Gran'ther Young Fetched back f'om Concord busted. ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various
... "OM, AMITAYA! measure not with words Th' Immeasurable; nor sink the string of thought Into the Fathomless. Who asks doth err, Who answers, errs. ...
— A Visit to Java - With an Account of the Founding of Singapore • W. Basil Worsfold
... tu t'es enfuie Je pleure blas ton a - ban don Par un bais er je t'en supplie Viens maccorder undous pardon Oh crois le bien ma bonne a se Pour te revoir oh om, un jor, Je donnerais toute ma vie Je ...
— Over the Border: Acadia • Eliza Chase
... go chwith Ydyw geiriau digyrrith; Cymru wech,—nis cymrai hon Lyw o astrus law estron; Ond tynged a brwnt angen, A gwae ei phobl, blyga'i phen: Llin ein llon D'wysogion sydd 'Leni mewn daear lonydd: Rho di'r llyw cadarn arnom A dedwydd beunydd y b'om:— Enwa 'nawr, er union waith, Y gwr del wisga'r dalaith, 'Nol cyfraith, fel b'o rhaith rhom, Na thyrr ing fyth awr rhyngom: Ie, tyngwn, at angau, Yn bur i hwn ...
— Gwaith Alun • Alun
... represent Eta and Omega. e: at the end of some names represents dieresis (separate syllable). [ae] or [Ae] represents the "ae" or "AE" ligature. a or o with tilde has been silently unpacked to am, an, on, om. ...
— Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame • Francesco Colonna
... doing? Man, I am practising medicine! Cases at present, one typhoid, two tonsilitis, five measles, eight dyspepsia, six rheumatism, et id gen om., one cantankerousness (she calls it depression), one gluttony, one nerves. Pretty busy, but my wheel keeps me in good trim. I have been paddling more or less, too, to keep chest and arms up with the rest ...
— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards
... a mulatter man f'om up de country somewhar. He don' look lack dese yer niggers roun' yere, ner yet lack a w'ite man. But de po' boy's in a bad fix, w'ateber he is, an' I 'spec's we bettah do w'at we kin fer 'im, an' w'en he ...
— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt
... bedst; For aldrig Det ei keise Jeg vilde slig en Klik, Som for den Vendereise I paa jert Rygte sik. Paa Landet var I friske, Men Vand kan slukke Ild, I svmmed som to Fiske, Ia, snart som dde Sild; Da sagtnedes Stoheien, Der Storm og Blge strid Ier viste Vinterveien Alt i en Uges Tid. Dog, om end Narre begge, Kom du dog vrst deran, Thi fra dig svmmed Brkke Og blev din Overmand; Du artig blev tilbage, Der han en Morgenstund Opskvulpedes saa fage Paa hie Roms Grund, Hvorfra sin Kaas ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... "Mesopotamia"! But when for the considerable rest of the essay we try to find out what humanisation is, why we find nothing but the old negative impalpable gospel, that we must "dismaterialise our upper class, disvulgarise our middle class, disbrutalise our lower class." "Om-m-ject and sum-m-m-ject!" "om-m-ject and sum-m-m-ject," in short, as that famous flash of Thomas Carlyle's genius discovered and summarised Coleridge, and with Coleridge the whole nineteenth century. A screed of jargon—a patter of shibboleth—and that is all. Never a thought for ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury
... be cha'ity but 't ain't 'ligion. Mistuh Dodge, his chaih boy's been a-wohkin' foh 'im six weeks. I 'spec' Mistuh Dodge give dat boy fahve hund'ud dollahs if he give 'im a cent! Mistuh Wahtuhbe'y's pahty, dey haid nineteen chaihs waitin' on 'em all de time, jest foh t' drive 'em f'om de ho-tel to de club, an' de casino. Dat cos' 'em nineteen hund'ud dollahs a week, and de boys, dey ain't one o'em 'at git less'n hund'ud dolluhs fo' hisself. Dat's de kin' o' gen'men Mistuh Wahtuhbe'y ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street
... and shrank into himself, a dingy, shapeless mass. In the pauses of their talk they could hear the low droning 'Om mane pudme hum! Om mane pudme hum!'—and the thick click of ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling
... hear and record the [1] thunderings of the spiritual law of Life, as opposed to the material law of death; the spiritual law of Love, as opposed to the material sense of love; the law of om- nipotent harmony and good, as opposed to any supposi- [5] titious law of sin, sickness, or death. And, before the flames have died away on this mount of revelation, like the patriarch of old, ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... secret, without being heard by any one. It is formed of three letters, of which the first, a, signifies the principal of all, the creator, Brama; the second, u, the conservator, Vichenou; and the last, m, the destroyer, who puts an end to all, Chiven. It is pronounced like the monosyllable om, and expresses the unity of those three Gods. The idea is precisely that of the Alpha and Omega mentioned in ...
— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney
... (havam?) must also be ideal, the plant can only be a symbol to Zoroaster. Can it be connected with Om? As to the date, Zoroaster the prophet cannot have lived later than 3000 B. C. (250 years before Abraham therefore), but 6000 or 5000 before Plato may more likely be correct, according to the statements of Aristotle and Eudoxus. Bactria ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... Om! Having bowed down to Narayana, and Nara the foremost of male beings, and the goddess Saraswati also, must the word ...
— Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1 • Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
... 25th of June, late in the evening, and proceeding until midnight, stopped at a little cluster of palms, with two or three inhabitants, called Thurgan. Then rising at daylight, and starting at once, I passed Om-el-Hamam, and reached Tesaoua about nine in the evening. I found that the Germans and the Tanelkums had gone on in advance some days, but not so fast that we could not hope to overtake them. The hurry and bustle attendant on the preparations for starting has rendered me rather indisposed; I was ...
— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 • James Richardson
... sesame, countercharm^, Ephesian letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye, fee-faw- fum. talisman, amulet, periapt^, telesm^, phylactery, philter; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei [Lat.], lamb of God; furcula^, madstone^; mascot, mascotte^; merrythought^; Om, Aum^; scarab, scarabaeus^; sudarium^, triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika, fylfot^, gammadion^. wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
