"Pome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... others with him in the room—that he felt that call of those old gods just as they did. The girl ceased and the room was silent. Through the walls came the sound of the sea—in the fire was the crackling of the coals, and down the great chimney came a little whistle of the wind. "A mighty fine pome 'tis fur sure," said the white-bearded sailor solemnly, "and mostly wonderful true." He sighed. "They'm ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole
... P: While he lived, in action. He has received weekly intelligence, Upon my knowledge, out of the Low Countries, For all parts of the world, in cabbages; And those dispensed again to ambassadors, In oranges, musk-melons, apricocks, Lemons, pome-citrons, and such-like: sometimes In Colchester oysters, and your ...
— Volpone; Or, The Fox • Ben Jonson
... rig'lar sport. He was orful keen on that po'try, too, you bet. So you'd better hump yourself afore somebody else cuts in. Mar got a hundred dollars for that pome, from that editor feller and his pardner. I reckon that's the rig'lar price, eh?" he added, with a sudden ...
— A Sappho of Green Springs • Bret Harte
... re-assembled and refreshed his broken troops: he furnished his camp with cannon from the arsenal at Berlin, which likewise supplied him with a considerable number of recruits; he recalled general Kleist, with five thousand men, from Pome-rania, and in a little time ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... The pome water, and the gentil ricardouns, And agaynes hertes for mutegacions,[206] Damasyns, whiche with there tast delite, Ful gret plente bothe of blak and white. And besydes this gracious paradis, Al ioghe[207] and gladnesse for to multiplie, Two olde men, ful circumspect ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous
... meant anything improper by squeezing it, and demanded of Frink, "Say, see if you can get old Dant' to spiel us some of his poetry. Talk up to him. Tell him, 'Buena giorna, senor, com sa va, wie geht's? Keskersaykersa a little pome, senor?'" ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis |
