"Plebe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that she could understand any thought which he directed to her, he could not help actually pronouncing the words, if only in a faint whisper. He was glad that he had learned, before the end of his plebe year at West Point, to ...
— Dearest • Henry Beam Piper
... entertained against their chiefs. Events are soon to prove this. If the first two orders are constrained to combine against the communes it is at the critical moment when the curates withdraw. If the institution of an upper chamber is rejected it is owing to the commonalty of the gentry (la plebe des gentilshommes) being unwilling to allow the great families a prerogative which ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine
... alii multitudinis domi minuendae gratia, pars imperii cupidine, sollicitata plebe et aliis novarum rerum avidis,[132] Hipponem, Hadrumetum, Leptim[133] aliasque urbes in ora maritima condidere, eaeque brevi multum auctae, pars originibus suis[134] praesidio, aliae decori fuere. Nam[135] de Carthagine silere melius puto quam parum dicere, quoniam alio properare ...
— De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius)
... as a plebe, had he consorted with such a bunch of "hush-mouths." Had he no rights as a commissioned officer and a world citizen? He still didn't know why he was incarcerated, or what regulation ...
— Next Door, Next World • Robert Donald Locke
... plebe I ever saw," Gresham commented, looking after Gamble. "It's so fortunate that one is only compelled to ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester
... friends "Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School," "Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School," "Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School," and "Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School" are now familiar records. Equally well known to these friends ...
— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus • Jessie Graham Flower
... [Footnote 1024: The "plebe e populo minuto," the Venetian Michiel tell us, "e quello che si vede certo con gran fervenzia e devozione frequentar le chiese, e continuar li riti cattolici." Relations des Amb. Ven. ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... early youth of General Custer are exceedingly interesting photographs, as it were, of a certain phase of American domestic and academic life. The characteristics of the child, the sorrows of the "plebe," and the aspirations and experiences of the cadet, are faithfully narrated. The first service of the subaltern, and his initiation into the perils and responsibilities of an officer in time of war, are interwoven ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various
... Congressional district, county and city of his residence, my own full name, age, State, county, and place of my birth, and my occupation when at home. This done I was sent in charge of an orderly to cadet barracks, where my "plebe ...
— The Upward Path - A Reader For Colored Children • Various |
