"Bot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conclusion, therefore, that these several forms really represent hybrids between H. pecan and H. laciniosa. In size, quality, and thinness of shell they appear to be the most valuable of American nuts. (Trelease, Wm., 7th Report Mo. Bot. Garden, 1896, ...
— The Pecan and its Culture • H. Harold Hume
... "Bot Softswan have one pale-fass hubsind," replied the girl, breaking into one of her old merry laughs at the trouble they both experienced in communicating through ...
— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Yas, bot if you no lak I leek heem, ust you yoomp in und I lat heem run goot for two, t'ree mile. Dot ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine
... we find no such name as Zicumni among the princes of the Orkneys. The race of the ancient earls of Orkney, descendants of Jarl Einar-Torf, becoming extinct, Magnus Smak, king of Norway, nominated, about 1343, Erngisel Sunason Bot, a Swedish nobleman, to be Jarl or Earl of Orkney. In 1357 Malic Conda, or Mallis Sperre, claimed the earldom. Afterwards, in 1369, Henry Sinclair put in his claim, and was nominated earl in 1370, by King Hakon. In 1375, Hakon nominated ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... um das dritte Wort Empfindsamkeit im Munde fhret, Und wenn ein Grashalm ihm verdorrt, Gleich einen Thrnenstrom verlieret— . . . . . . . . Mit meinem Weibchen thut er schier Gleich so bekannt wie ein Franzose; All' Augenblicke bot er ihr Toback aus eines Bettlers Dose Mit dem, am Zaun in tiefem Schlaf Er einen Tausch wie Yorik traf. Der Unempfindsamkeit zum Hohn Hielt er auf eine Mck' im Glase Beweglich einen Leichsermon, Purrt' eine Flieg' ihm an der Nase, Macht' er das Fenster auf, und sprach: Zieh ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer |
