"What" Quotes from Famous Books
... properly belongs to science. Whenever knowledge obliges us to doubt, we are always safe in doubting. Astronomers foretell eclipses, say how long comets are to stay with us, point out where a new planet is to be found. We see they know what they assert, and the poor old Roman Catholic Church has at last to knock under. So Geology proves a certain succession of events, and the best Christian in the world must make the earth's history square with it. Besides, I don't think ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... Spanish insurrection showed its protecting and preservative power. The tremendous energy which seemed to defy all control, was there seen effecting the highest results of national defence, and giving proof of the irresistible strength provided in the population of every land. What nation of Europe does not possess a million of men for its defence; and what invader could confront a million of men on their own soil? Let this truth be felt, and aggression becomes hopeless, and war ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... we knew what was really the will of God," replied the former prior of the Sorbonne. "Observe, my daughter, that ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — An Old Maid • Honore de Balzac
... know these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are generally the stronger! I know very well that Count Nicholas is too young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of old Count Bezukhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses have received very little, Prince Vasili nothing, and it is Monsieur Pierre who has inherited ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... with a very sore back; and when the third brother, whose name was Taper Tom, because he sat in the ashes and made tapers out of fir, said he now would go and make the Princess laugh, the two older brothers turned to him in scorn, for how could he do what neither of them, the soldier and the schoolmaster, had quite failed to do? The Princess would not even look at him, he might ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various
... give thee thousand kisses, Hoping what I most desire; Not a mother's fondest wishes Can ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Posy Ring - A Book of Verse for Children • Various
... Peter Schmidt, "but this is only a small beginning, though enough to indicate what is hidden under the ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann
... dismissed, without satisfying him, Balachoff, the bearer of the Czar's last offers. Napoleon repeated his former complaints, going back bitterly to the happy future which was unrolled before Russia when her emperor walked in harmony with France. "What an admirable reign he might have had, if he had liked!" repeated Napoleon; "all that was necessary was to keep on good terms with me. I gave him Finland, and promised him Moldavia and Wallachia, which ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt
... "What can she be writing to me about?" I said to myself. "Why does she write at all? I do not want her pity, still ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Mauprat • George Sand
... to hand, and so long as you have a good time don't worry about the bills. You'll find another five hundred dollars at the bank when you want them. Thank God, I can give my daughter what her mother should have had. Two years since I've seen my little girl, and now it seems that somebody else is wanting her! Well, we were made men and women, and if you had been meant to live alone dabbling in music you wouldn't have been given your mother's ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... one would be incapable of expressing. Though she painted very badly, it was not altogether her fault. Through an economical turn, perhaps ill-advised, she had not finished her course at the Arts Decoratifs. Besides, poverty alone had made her turn to painting. What use in painting without a purpose? And did not Pierre think that almost all those who produce art do it without actual necessity, through vanity, in order to occupy their time, or else because at first they think they need it and later on will not confess they were mistaken? ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Pierre and Luce • Romain Rolland
... will is directed either to the good or to what seems good. Now from the fact that will wishes the good, it does not sin: and that it wishes what seems good but is not truly good, points to a defect in the apprehensive power rather than in the will. Therefore sin is nowise ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas
... least leaven of credulity, excited fancy, to say nothing of willing or careless imposture, spoils the whole loaf. Beside, allowing the possibility of some clear glimpses into a higher state of being, what do we want of it now? All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 • S.M. Fuller
... course they may be owned individually. The sum of the parts making up the whole stream involves so many individuals as to imply public ownership, and inasmuch as one individual is limited in his uses of the stream by the principle already referred to, he cannot, even on his own land, do what he pleases with a stream or with its waters. When streams are navigable, according to the law of this country, no private ownership can exist, for the waters are controlled and owned by the federal government. This latter body, in general, does not undertake ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden
... ensued he refilled his weapon. There was a chorus of ugly growls and a concerted movement towards the door. He shot again, aiming low and relying as much on the flash and noise to frighten them as on actual killing. To those without it sounded as though there might be several men. No one knew but what the man next to him had turned traitor. They groped for one another's throats and finally, as though by one impulse, crowded for the exit. They fought and pounded and kicked at each other. It was every man for himself and the Devil take the hindmost. Wilson helped them along by ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... hang around, and help me with the canned goods, and he'd go fishing with me, and shooting. He was a regular—what do you call 'em? These dogs that go after things for you? He'd go under the water and bring in the big fish for me. And he liked to do it. You never saw anything like ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien
... ridicule to be well nigh spent (which is the common logic used to crush out all new ideas), and it is to be expected that gentlemen will look upon it with all the charity of a learned body, and not be too hasty to condemn what they have had but little chance to investigate; and, of course, have not practiced with that success which can only come from an intelligent understanding of its ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... faffling gumps and hairless seers Stretch shanks and arms and yawn till hoarse, And vapours green and beacons red, Feared coming Dawn, and fled in haste; The bulwarks that each hoodlum fears, Sink in a cajon's livid course; The winds and storms are silent, dead, As barriers red bathe the waste. What of the sight when Horrors swirl, When oceans ring with Terror's roll? What of the galley-decks and wrecks That felt the force of angry Hell? When kingdoms fought each warring Earl, The incubi cursed each lost soul; When vandals broke ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque
... thought crossed Phillip Lawson's mind. Can the fellow be honest? I cannot bear to think ill of a fellow-man, and I must not now. I know that Tracy is not what he might be, yet he has a kind heart and what's the use of my talking, who is faultless? "Let him that is without sin cast ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour
... the report of what he had done, and a description of the country written in a strain of swelling and gushing rhetoric in singular contrast with his usual sarcastic utterances. "None but enemies of the truth," his letter ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman
... of the Congress at its last session the White House, which had become disfigured by incongruous additions and changes, has now been restored to what it was planned to be by Washington. In making the restorations the utmost care has been exercised to come as near as possible to the early plans and to supplement these plans by a careful study of such buildings as that of the University of Virginia, which was built by Jefferson. The ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... primary, practical suggestions, just what she needed, wasting no words. He saw it was the best service he could do this little girl who had suddenly become the real head of ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... supposing it was she, what difference did it make—to me? None, of course. She had asked us not to follow her, to make no attempt to find her. I had preached compliance with her wish to Hephzy, to Doctor Bayliss—yes, to Herbert Bayliss ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
... disastrous and melancholy. As the dread of ills is commonly more oppressive than their real presence, perhaps in no period of his life was he more justly the object of compassion. His vigor of mind, which, though it sometimes failed him in acting, never deserted him in his sufferings, was what alone supported him; and he was determined, as he wrote to Lord Digby, if he could not live as a king, to die like a gentleman; nor should any of his friends, he said, ever have reason to blush for the prince ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. - From Charles I. to Cromwell • David Hume
... occupation of Great Britain in 1882. "By right of conquest" Great Britain subsequently claimed a share in the administration of the former Sudan provinces of Egypt, and an agreement of the 19th of January 1899 established the joint sovereignty of Great Britain and Egypt over what is now known as ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... about the Earl's bland theory that Fairholme House needed a sprightly viscountess, yet now, twenty-four hours later, he could extract no shred of humor from the idyl of a draper's assistant. It seemed to be a perfectly natural thing that these lovers should talk of mating. Of what else should they whisper on this midsummer's night, when the gloaming already bore the promise of dawn, and the glory of the sea and sky spread quiet harmonies ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy
... me, and he turned aside, As if he wished himself to hide: And with his coat did then essay [2] To wipe those briny tears away. I followed him, and said, "My friend, 15 What ails you? wherefore weep you so?" —"Shame on me, Sir! this lusty Lamb, He makes my tears to flow. To-day I fetched him from the rock: He is the last of all my ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight
... bleak blast of the hill. Kindly and repeatedly was he welcomed by the venerable old dame, the mistress of the family, who, dressed in her coif and pinners, her close and decent gown of homespun wool, but with a large gold necklace and ear-rings, looked, what she really was, the lady as well as the farmer's wife, while, seated in her chair of wicker, by the corner of the great chimney, she directed the evening occupations of the young women, and of two or three stout serving wenches, who sate plying their distaffs ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Black Dwarf • Sir Walter Scott
... existing among the Lenape (Delawares) and other Eastern tribes.[801] In South America it appears among the Arawaks of Guiana,[802] and perhaps elsewhere. For Africa there is little information on this point, and what we have is not always definite;[803] one of the clearest expressions of descent is found in the title "grandfather" given to the chameleon by the Chameleon clan of the Herrero of German Southwest Africa, but ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy
... I, for one, believe it. What a subject this for reflection, what a picture of misery, what an awful monument of fallen greatness! If the King had those lucid intervals of reason which it is said he had, his situation must have been, if possible, infinitely more ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt
... with calcium fires, as we left the bay. Let no man say I am unscientific: when I ran, on the alert, out of my stateroom, and found the main cabin incarnadined with the glow of the last scene of a pantomime, I stopped dead: 'What is this?' said I. 'This ship is on fire, I see that; but why a pantomime?' And I stood and reasoned the point, until my head was so muddled with the fumes that I could not find the companion. A few seconds later, the captain had ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... head that this was his chance for revenge, so he told the King what Ku-ula had said but not in the same way, saying: "Your head fisherman told me to come back and tell you that your head should be cut from your body and cooked in the imu, and the flesh of your body should be cut up and salted and ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Hawaiian Folk Tales - A Collection of Native Legends • Various
... furious now. Plainly the Germans meant to take no chances. They couldn't guess what the gathering their airplanes had observed might portend, but, if they could, they meant to defeat its object, whatever that might be. Well, they did not succeed, but they probably had the satisfaction of thinking that they had, and I, for one, do not begrudge them that. They ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder
... Mexicans by various names. The main village is called Fernandez de Taos, and is located near the centre of the valley, on a high plateau of ground. The buildings here, as, indeed, in all the towns of New Mexico, are constructed of adobes, and are one story high, with what is usually known as flat roofs. These houses are huddled together without much regard being paid to streets. The main attraction of the town is the plaza, where all the business, such as marketing, etc., is carried on. It is here that the stores are located; and, on a fete day, or ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself • De Witt C. Peters
... leave the law of God, as despairing of life thereby, surely righteousness is not to be found in the law; I mean that which can justify thee before God from the curse who livest and walkest in the law. I shall, therefore, end this second reason with what I have said before—'Men must be justified from the curse in the sight of ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... this was out of the question. Toward night, we found a cask near the beach, standing on one end, with one head out, which held about two gallons of water, that had rained in. This was not salt, but smelled badly. We, however, scooped out with our hands about one half of it, and left what remained for the next day. We got some relief from this, and then we returned to our ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman
... Fantasie begins with a contrapuntal working-out of a figure taken from the first theme, but it suffers from a persistent emphasis on what, after all, is an uninteresting rhythm [Music]; there is, furthermore, a rigid grouping of the phrases in twos and fours. Schumann's instinct was a wise one in omitting the main theme of the Recapitulation and in leading, as soon as possible, to the repetition of the delightful second ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding
... found that the streets had been barred off by the military for two blocks in every direction, and that there was only a small crowd gathered to see what might happen. About as hostile as a lot of children. I got through the line of troops and in front of the Consulate found several hundreds of the refugees who had been brought out to be marched to the Cirque Royale, where they could be more comfortably ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson
... through Rome—how shall I describe it? The Capitol, the Forum, St. Peter's, the Coliseum—what few hours' ramble ever took in places so hallowed by poetry, history and art? It was a golden leaf in my calendar of life. In thinking over it now, and drawing out the threads of recollection from ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor
... well settled, Amelia asked Booth what he thought of Mrs. Bennet? "I think, my dear," answered Booth, "that she hath been formerly a very pretty woman." "I am mistaken," replied she, "if she be not a very good creature. I don't know I ever took such a liking to any one on so short an acquaintance. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding
... three weeks since what you writ about happened in this place: the quarrel between my friends did not run so high as I find your accounts have made it. The truth of the fact you shall have very faithfully. You are to understand, that the persons concerned in this ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken
... that looks through solid wood and iron, and you think wimmen can't see through unjust laws and practices, the rampant evils of to-day, and see what is on the other side, see a remedy for 'em. Florence Nightingale could mother and help cure an army, and why hain't men willin' to let wimmen help cure a sick legislation, kinder mother it, and encourage it to do better? She might much better be doin' that, than playin' bridge-whist, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Samantha on the Woman Question • Marietta Holley
... is the fact that consciousness has no essential unity. It aggregates and dissipates, and what we call normal consciousness,—the "Human Mind" of classic psychology,—is not even typical, but only one case out of thousands. Slight organic alterations, intoxications, and auto-intoxications, give supraliminal forms completely different, and the subliminal ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Memories and Studies • William James
... evil report, and various guesses in which the story of the muslin gown held a prominent place. No dress Dinah had ever worn had been so much commented on, or was half as interesting to the girls, who could not conceive what the connection might be, that made the married women laugh, between love and a ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac
... surveyors, sent Boon and Stoner to pilot them in; which the two bush veterans accordingly did, making the round trip of 800 miles in 64 days. The outbreak of the Indian war caused all the hunters and surveyors to leave Kentucky; and at the end of 1774 there were no whites left, either there or in what is now middle Tennessee. But on the frontier all men's eyes were turned towards these new and fertile regions. The pioneer work of the hunter was over, and that of the axe-bearing settler was about ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Winning of the West, Volume One - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 • Theodore Roosevelt
... "What I wanted to say was, don't you keep sendin' so much o' your money home, child. It's yours, and I want you should have it; most of it goes for patent medicines, anyway, when it gets here; we can't keep Reuben from buying 'em, and he's always changin' doctors. And I want you should ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Minister's Charge • William D. Howells
... a coldly critical stare, seated himself on the stool, and with quite a fierce air devoted all his energy to mastication. He neither altered his position nor changed his expression until he and the judge were alone, then, catching the judge's eye, he made what seemed a casual movement with his hand, the three fingers raised; but to the judge this clearly was without significance, and the horse-thief manifested no further interest where he was concerned. He did not even condescend to answer the one or two civil remarks the judge ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester
... has the faintest recollection of any such person. I am quite convinced that he never saw me nor heard the sound of my voice. That his letter was a tissue of vile calumnies, shameless fabrications, and unblushing and contemptible falsehoods, —by whomsoever uttered,—I have stated in a reply to what ought never to have been an official letter. No man can regret more than I do that such a correspondence is enrolled in the capital among American state papers. I shall not trust myself to speak of the matter. It has ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... followed a scene which the girl remembered afterward with a curious sense of misgiving and of question. The thief gave one glance at the beautiful, angry face of the man, then fell at his feet, groveling and beseeching. What she was saying the girl did not know, but her face and figure bore a look of ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Daphne, An Autumn Pastoral • Margaret Pollock Sherwood
... What difference, then, can we possibly discover to exist between the Bordalese petitioners and the Corypheus of restriction? One, alone; and that is simply the greater or less extension which is given to the signification ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Sophisms of the Protectionists • Frederic Bastiat
... address to his majesty, that he would be pleased to settle one hundred thousand pounds a year upon the prince of Wales. He represented that such provision was conformable to the practice of ancient times; that what he proposed had been enjoyed by his present majesty in the life-time of his father; and that a settlement of this nature was reasonable and necessary to ascertain the independency of the apparent heir to the crown. The motion was vigorously opposed by sir Robert Walpole, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... scarcely endure the roof of the old house above me in those first autumnal days. How early in the summer, too, the prophecy of autumn comes! Earlier in some years than in others; sometimes even in the first weeks of July. There is no other feeling like what is caused by this faint, doubtful, yet real perception—if it be not rather a foreboding—of the year's decay, so blessedly sweet and ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Old Manse (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... had evidently great difficulty in imagining what an Aborigines Protection Society could be, and promptly assured me that there was nothing of the kind in Russia. On being told that such a society might render valuable services by protecting the weaker against the stronger race, and collecting important materials ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
... in her mind what could be the graces or favors promised her in the last interview with her spiritual director. Her humility had not dared to seek favors; she was still overwhelmed with the thought of the bitter past; more time for repentance would be ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly
... triumph and consequence, however, met with many mortifying circumstances. The children who lived near her were one day permitted to ramble about the fields, when Caroline accompanied them, and led the way. What first attracted their attention was a beautiful meadow, enamelled with a variety of charming flowers; and butterflies, whose wings were of various colours, hovered over its surface. The little ladies amused themselves with hunting these butterflies, which they dexterously caught ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Looking-Glass for the Mind - or Intellectual Mirror • M. Berquin
... published at Manila are entirely under the control of the government; and a resident of that city must make up his mind to remain in ignorance of the things that are passing around him, or believe just what the authorities will allow to be told, whether truth or falsehood. The government of the Philippines is emphatically an iron rule: how long it can continue so, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.
... made up of fractions and minute atoms—as those things which go to affect habits and character are small and hourly recurring, it comes to pass that a belief in Providence so very wide and general, is altogether inefficient for consecrating and rendering sacred the great body of what comes in contact with the mind in the experience of life. Only once in years does the Christian with this kind of belief hear the voice of the Lord God speaking to him. When the hand of death is laid on his child, or the bolt strikes down the brother by his side, then, indeed, he feels that God ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... agreement he was, as we know, entitled to a share of all rents and dues, as well as of the gold collected; but it had been no one's business to collect these for him, and every one's business to neglect them. No one had cared; no one had kept any accounts of what was due to the Admiral; he could not find out what had been paid and what had not been paid. He accused Ovando of having impeded his agent Carvajal in his duty of collecting the Admiral's revenues, and of disobeying the express orders of Queen Isabella in that ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Christopher Columbus, Complete • Filson Young
... here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did;—on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs. Too evidently this is a large topic; deserving quite other treatment than we can expect to give it at present. A large ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... government, understanding of their problems and the will to help solve them. Our objective must be to help bring production into balance with existing and new markets, at prices that yield farmers a return for their work in line with what other Americans get. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... North Wind first tried his power and blew with all his might, but the keener his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, until at last, resigning all hope of victory, the Wind called upon the Sun to see what he could do. The Sun suddenly shone out with all his warmth. The Traveler no sooner felt his genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last, fairly overcome with heat, undressed and bathed in a stream that lay in ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Aesop's Fables • Aesop
... Lud saw the prince his son, and found he had grown up such a fine young man, he perceived what a grand thing it would be to have him married without delay, so that his children might be the means of perpetuating the glorious race of Lud, down to the very latest ages of the world. With this view, he sent a special embassy, composed of great noblemen who ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... collection, to strengthen the general belief in witches, and to influence the minds of the villagers against them; for he singled out those who dealt leniently with witches for punishment, either in the near or distant future, which was just what his congregation was glad to hear. Not that the preacher was a bad man, certainly not worse than his neighbours, but he was as ignorant and superstitious ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Drummer's Coat • J. W. Fortescue
... own experience teaches me that there is more facility in resistance. Acting thus I have always felt in accord with natural instincts, and there is a barbaric sense of security in following them.... Yet I have only one thing to tell you in reply to your "so many." Can you guess what it is? Already I think the birds know it. I have so far departed from my natural order of perversity and self-protection that they feel it, and twitter together when I pass by. I think they look down upon me now with high-feathered contempt. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance • Paul Elmer More
... be maneuvering for position," asserted Rob. "Yes, both are circling around now, and going still higher all the time. Before long the German will be hidden in that cloud bank, and that's what ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
... "What did you say was the matter in the kitchen?" demanded Grandma, in alarm. "Oh, them dirty hens, I ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... December 7th details all that it is intended to do. It is to the credit of our Generals as men, but to their detriment as soldiers, that they seem throughout the campaign to have shown extraordinarily little power of dissimulation. They did the obvious, and usually allowed it to be obvious what they were about to do. One thinks of Napoleon striking at Egypt; how he gave it abroad that the real object of the expedition was Ireland, but breathed into the ears of one or two intimates that in very truth it was bound for Genoa. The leading official at Toulon had no more ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Great Boer War • Arthur Conan Doyle
... the sources of the rise of the priesthood is given by the titles borne by the priests of the various capitals of the provinces or nomes. Many of these refer to what were purely secular occupations in later times, and we thus learn that the priestly character was attached to the principal person, be he king, or leader in other ways. In one city it was the King and His Loved Son who were the priests, in another it was the General, in another the Warrior ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Religion of Ancient Egypt • W. M. Flinders Petrie
... brought the trophy to the palace; but the princess had learned of the treachery from one of the spectators, and asked for a week's delay. Before it was too late, Damar Olan, who had managed to find a way out of what nearly proved a grave, reached the court and told his tale, now no longer concealing his rank. He married the princess and afterwards was entrusted by Pati Legindir with all the affairs of state. Having obtained supreme power, Damar Olan sent his treacherous rivals to southern Borneo, with ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall
... SEEM TO BE LEFT OPEN.—Evidently, the self- realization doctrine is a great advance upon the doctrine of following nature. The self-realizationist realizes that man's nature is in the making, and he is not blind to the difficulty of the task of determining just what the real ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton
... at Saint Pierre has dropped steadily over the years. In 1992, an arbitration panel awarded the islands an exclusive economic zone of 12,348 sq km to settle a longstanding territorial dispute with Canada, although it represents only 25% of what France had sought. The islands are heavily subsidized by France. Imports come primarily from ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... the forts at the mouth of the river, he returned to Chippewa, followed again by Riall as far as Lundy's Lane. In the meanwhile, General Drummond, hearing at Kingston of the invasion, hastened with what troops he could collect to strengthen the British force on the frontier. Reaching Niagara on the 25th of July, he advanced with eight hundred men to support Riall. At the same time, he pushed forward a column from Fort Niagara to Lewiston, to disperse a body of the enemy collected at that place. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow
... Bells. But they tell me that meeting was packed by that"—and he suddenly flamed wrathful and used a foul epithet—"from Denver, and the three thugs he brought with him. Mr. Townsend, there ain't a man on the Cross that don't belong to the union. You know what that means. You know how hard it is for us to scab ourselves. But there ain't a man on the Cross that hasn't decided to stick by the mine if you want us. We're making a protest to the head officers, and if ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... was certainly in the wrong too, the honest, grateful creature having no thought but what consisted of the best principles, both as a religious Christian and as a grateful friend; as appeared afterward ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — "Stops" - Or How to Punctuate. A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students • Paul Allardyce
... highest;—on them, in times of emergency, the government must rest; their education and intelligence are its only sure foundations. But, having made this class the vast majority of the master-caste, what are the policy and tendency of the Cotton dynasty as touching them? The story is almost too old to bear even the shortest repetition. Philosophically, it is a logical necessity of the Cotton dynasty that it should be opposed to universal intelligence;—economically, it renders universal intelligence ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861 • Various
... indiscreet Sovereign will receive no punishment for his indiscretion, that the Prime Minister will have no European complication to deal with, and that with a little tact and management upon our part nobody will be a penny the worse for what might have been a very ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle
... what seemed to him to be bitter experience also. An individual, notoriously slack and incompetent, ten years his junior, had been promoted over his head, because he was somebody's cousin and the kind of fatuous ass that only labours industriously in drawing-rooms and at functions, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren
... collecting, some of which detaching themselves passed rapidly over our heads. About three P.M. there was the sighing of a breeze from that quarter. The barometer, also, at this time, ceased falling and stood at 29.57, being as much as two-tenths lower than what it was an hour before, and having ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 • John Lort Stokes
... considerably in respect of gradients, and the utmost load the engine could draw was taken in both directions over each division. The maximum inclinations were 1 in 88. The results of the experiments were so voluminous, that it will be sufficient to detail the particulars of what may be termed crucial tests of ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various
... means by which he scooped in large profits. Several times, when the rate of exchange was so high as to be injurious to general business, he drew upon Baring Bros. for sums of money to be transferred to the United States. This was hailed as a public benefaction. But what did Girard do? He disposed of the money to the Bank of the United States and charged ten per ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus
... had fallen early in the morning, and when the sun rose and cast its slanting beams across the forest of grass, there was such a sparkling and glistening and gleaming that you didn't know what to say or do for sheer ecstasy, it was so beautiful, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Adventures of Maya the Bee • Waldemar Bonsels
... Juechziger has many a time threatened to kill,' sobbed the blind woman, 'I would rather die—die by some Swedish bullet! Why should I wish to live? When your father comes home he beats me if he finds the room cold, and do what I will I can't make the fire burn in the stove. The tinder will not light, though I have often struck the flint and steel together till I made my poor hands quite sore. No one lives in the house but ourselves, so I cannot get my lamp lighted, and if I ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Young Carpenters of Freiberg - A Tale of the Thirty Years' War • Anonymous
... 'ouse we did up last summer—No. 596,' Wantley continued, for the benefit of those not 'in the know'. 'Well, it 'ad bin empty for a long time and we found this 'ere table in a cupboard under the stairs. A bloody fine table it was too. One of them bracket tables what you fix to the wall, without no legs. It 'ad a 'arf-round marble top to it, and underneath was a carved hoak figger, a mermaid, with 'er arms up over 'er 'ead 'oldin' up the table top—something splendid!' The man ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... therefore be the endeavor of this book to provide guidance for those who really want to make themselves more efficient in the gem business, but who have felt that they needed something in the way of suggestion regarding what to attempt, and how to ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public • Frank Bertram Wade
... she had fished the olive from the bottle, however, her thoughts swung from the artistic to the material aspect of those mysterious footsteps. What had the man wanted or expected to find? She set down the olive bottle impulsively and went out and around to the kitchen door and opened it. In spite of herself, she shuddered as she went in, and she walked close to the wall until she was well ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower
... 'Oh, what lovely cows!' cried Helga again; 'I am sure their milk must be sweeter than any other cows'. How I should like to have some! I ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Brown Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... something like an organization of the civilized nations, because as the world becomes more highly organized the need for navies and armies will diminish. It is not possible to secure anything like an immediate disarmament, because it would first be necessary to settle what peoples are on the whole a menace to the rest of mankind, and to provide against the disarmament of the rest being turned into a movement which would really chiefly benefit these obnoxious peoples; but it may ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... tell me! speak again, 410 Thy soft response renewing— What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Selections from Five English Poets • Various
... door opened and shut; visitors came and went in the room; the milk woman put her head in, crying: "What a party!" and left the tiny can of milk upon the floor: Elsa's mother came to call her daughter to supper, but let her stay when she saw the dress still unfinished. Now and then some one would run out of the flat opposite, the flat above or the flat next door and, popping a head in at the door, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... into an imaginary glass. "He can kill with one tiny drop. In his study he keeps a machine which makes water into ice. Rosa would carry round the ice with little glasses of curacoa, after the coffee was served; and all would say: 'What wonders are these? Ice in Mortallone!' and would drink his health. But he never touched the ice. You tell that to your friends, little boy. But it will not save them: for he will find some ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... acquire it. An astonishing creature! He had not finished being astonished at her. In some respects he had not even come to a decision about her. For instance, he suspected that she had "no notion of money," but he could not be sure. She did what she liked with her own income, which was about two hundred a year; that is to say, she clothed herself out of it. Her household accounts were unknown to him; he had once essayed to comprehend them, but ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett
... Pete wisely backed away a few paces and listened. A little wind whispered in the pines and a branch creaked, but there came no sound of movement from the lion. "I reckon I plugged him right!" muttered Pete. "Wonder what made Jim light out in sech a hurry?" And, "Hey, Jim!" ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... many years, when he came home to cast his vote, to meet his neighbors on the eve of the election and give his views of the situation and of its resultant duties. These occasions had come to be anticipated with the deepest interest by the whole region round about, and what had begun as a little gathering of neighors had now become such an assembly that the largest hall in the place was crowded with ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Volume I • Andrew Dickson White
... for the young of the city over the country or small town is contact with those who talk. They are conscious of the exercise of a freedom they have never known—the freedom to say what rises to the lips. They experience the unknown joy of play of mind. According to their observation the tongue and mind are used only when needed for serious service: to keep them active, to allow them ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Business of Being a Woman • Ida M. Tarbell
... by all she had undergone for their sakes, and Edmund and Sophy both stood as mourners at her grave, Sophy feeling that her life had been more of a deepening, realising lesson than anything that had gone before, making her feel more than had ever come yet into her experience, what this life is compared with ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Carbonels • Charlotte M. Yonge
... wretch, have been driven as far beyond his powers of endurance as any other poor creature who ever at any time felt himself constrained to go. He had not been so drunk but that he knew all that happened, and could foresee pretty well what would happen. The summons to attend upon the Lord Mayor had been served upon him. There were some, among them Croll and Mr Brehgert, who absolutely knew that he had committed forgery. He had no ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope
... never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... predominant. The overwhelming force of Antalcidas, the largest that had been seen in the Hellespont since the battle of AEgospotami, rendered all resistance hopeless. The supplies of corn from the Euxine no longer found their way to Athens: and the Athenians, depressed at once both by what they felt and by what they anticipated, began to long for peace. As without the assistance of Athens it seemed hopeless for the other allies to struggle against Sparta, all Greece was inclined to listen to ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Smaller History of Greece • William Smith
... By what miracle had Louison escaped? In his anxiety to make the young girl harmless, Robeckal had given her such a strong dose that the narcotic had just the opposite effect, and before an hour had passed, a hammering and beating of her temples awakened ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere
... compliments paid to me for my perspicuity in extending the hand of friendship to the most dangerous political factor at present existent,—vide the Oracle. I've wasted many hours arguing with some of my colleagues. If I had known what was coming, I might just as well have sat tight and waited for to-day. I am vindicated, whitewashed. Only the Opposition are furious. They are trying to claim you as a natural member of the Radical Party. Shouldn't be surprised if they didn't ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A People's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... What has been said of irregular replies which Black may try in King's Pawn openings holds good in Queen's Pawn openings too. There is no series of opening moves which needs to be memorized. The principles of speedy development ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership • Edward Lasker
... Jesus Christ their Saviour; for by how much God hath called his Son to offices and places of trust, by so much he hath heaped dignities upon him. It is said of Mordecai, that he was next to the king Ahasuerus. And what then? Why, then the greatness of Mordecai, and his high advance, must be written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia, to the end his fame might not be buried nor forgotten, but remembered and talked of in generations to come (Esth 10). Why, my brethren, God exalted ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... she began a vehement eulogium on the superior happiness and blessing of my lot, while under such a protection ; and angrily exhorted me not to forfeit what I ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay
... my present writing is ryght honorable humblie to requyr you to Deliuer this other lettre enclosed to the quenes grace quilk conteaneht in few and sempill wordes my confession what I think of her authoritie, how far it is Just, and what may make ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment - of Women • John Knox
... lucky dog, Perkins! But see here, what did you mean by the premium you talked of for bringing about a match between me and ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine • T. S. Arthur
... Percy wounds Douglas "till backwards he did flee." Hogg was too good a Scot to interpolate the flight of Douglas; and Scott was so good a Scot that—what do you suppose he did?—he excised "till backwards he did flee" from Hogg's text, and inserted "that he fell to the ground" FROM THE ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
... "What did I tell you," he asked, "when we first heard that Mr. Wagner's widow was appointed head-partner in the business? How many opinions of philosophers on the moral and physical incapacities of women did I ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Jezebel • Wilkie Collins
... most of his time in the Wind River Mountains, in a beautiful little valley named after him "Brown's Hole." It has a place on the maps to-day, and is on what was then called Prairie River, or Sheetskadee, by the Indians; it is now known as Green River, and is the source of the ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman |