"Dos" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... myself as untainted by it as I can. Your architects build without a foundation. I would readily lend an helping hand to any superstructure, when once this is effectually secured,—but first I would say, [Greek: Dos pou sto]. ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... "Dos cartos," he replied in Spanish to the dealer's inquiry. Potts glanced at the three cards which Benito had retained. Each ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... bad boy!" wailed the little girl, making a dash for Paul, who deftly evaded her and took refuge behind Betty's chair, "Div me dos ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... meme presque partout, les couches descendent tout droit du haut de la montagne jusques a son pied: mais au dessus de Collonge le sommet arrondi en dos d'ane presente des couches qui descendent de part et d'autre, au sud-est vers les Alpes, et au nord-ouest vers notre vallee; avec cette difference, que celles qui descendent vers les Alpes parviennent ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... exist, which may vie with those of Africa in barrenness. Almost in the very centre of the continent is a sandy desert, called the Campos dos Paricis. Here the surface is formed by long-backed ridges of sandy hills parallel to one another. So loose is the soil, that even the patient mule with a burden on his back can hardly make ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston
... the river to-night and camp at El Rincon until morning, and then strike for Dos Palmas and ...
— Captured by the Navajos • Charles A. Curtis
... effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent^, plenipotent^, omnipotent; almighty. forcible &c adj.. (energetic) 171; influential &c 175; productive &c 168. Adv. powerfully &c adj.; by virtue of, by dint of. Phr. a toute force [Fr.]; dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen [Gr.]; eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis [Lat.]; fortis cadere cedere ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... crossed to the west bank of the Paraguay. Padre Ruiz Montoya, in his 'Conquista Espiritual del Paraguay', cap. i., speaking of the Guarani race, says: 'Domina ambos mares el del sur por todo el Brasil y ciniendo el Peru con los dos mas grandes rios que conoce el orbe que son el de la Plata, cuya boca en Buenos-Ayres es de ochenta leguas, y el gran Maranon, a el inferior en nada e que pasa bien vecino de la ciudad de Cuzco.' ** Barco de la Centenera, in 'La Argentina', ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... Callao is one of the largest and calmest on the west coast of South America. On the south-west, it is bounded by the sterile island of San Lorenzo; on the north it flows into the creeks, which are terminated by the Punta Gorda, the Punta Pernal, the Punta de dos Playas, and the Punta de Dona Pancha. The beach is flat, for the most part shingly, and about the mouth of the Rimac, somewhat marshy. Between the mouth of the Rimac and that of the Rio de Chillon, which is a little southward of the Punta Gorda, there is a tract of rich marshy ...
— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi
... first recorded mention of tobacco is in Columbus's diary for November 20, 1492:—"Hallaron los dos cristianos por el camino mucha gente que atravesaba a sus pueblos, mugeres y hombres con un tizon en la mano, yerbas para tomar sus sahumerios que acostumbraban," i. e. "the two Christians met on the road a ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske
... duquel se trouvent des echellons servant a monter pour developer les hanches et la poitrine; les Colonnes ou piliers, exercice servant a mettre le corps droit. Le Balancier sert a redresser la Colonne vertebrale ou epine du dos. Les Barilles pour redresser la tete les epaules et les hanches. Le Balancoir est pour maintenir la tete et les reins droits quand on est assise. Le puits la balle et la manivelle pour donner de la force a une epaule ...
— A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium • Richard Boyle Bernard
... thirty-eight leaves, comprising a title-page as above, under a woodcut [2] of St. Dominic, with the verso originally blank, but in this copy bearing the contemporary manuscript inscription, Tassada en dos rreales, signed Juan de Cuellar; and seventy-four pages of text in Spanish, Tagalog transliterated into roman letters, and Tagalog in Tagalog characters. The size of the volume, which is unbound, is 9 1/8 by 7 inches, although ...
— Doctrina Christiana • Anonymous
... miles,— And peddled out my rhyming pack To friends who always paid in smiles. So, laissez-moi! some youthful wit No doubt has wares he wants to show; And I am asking, "Let me sit," Dum ille clamat, "Dos ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various
... CORRAL. Dos preguntas no ms, seora Cirila, y perdone. An no hace un mes que estos seores Marqueses vinieron ac de Madrid huyendo de la quema. Es cierto que se encuentran ya en situacin tan precaria ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... all the diphallic terata was Jean Baptista dos Santos, who when but six months old was spoken of by Acton. His father and mother were healthy and had two well-formed children. He was easily born after an uneventful pregnancy. He was good-looking, well proportioned, ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... profits have been, it is stated, upwards of 15,000 pounds sterling. These are also controlled by British capitalists, as is the "Esperanza" Mine of El Oro, it is stated, which has produced since 1895 a value of 4-1/2 millions sterling, with a profit of nearly 2-1/2 millions. The "Dos Estrellas" Mine is yet another example of this successful district. It is said to have made profits since 1902 of 2-1/2 millions sterling, and to have ore for future work in large quantities. It is interesting to note that this excellent performance has been made on ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock
... by train to Batavia, and there the visitor, having handed over his baggage to the care of the hotel runners at Tandjong Priok, ought to take a sado for conveyance to the particular hotel he has selected. The word sado is a corruption of "dos-a-dos." The vehicle is drawn by a small pony, and is not comparable with the ricksha for comfort, though the long distances may make the ricksha an ...
— Across the Equator - A Holiday Trip in Java • Thomas H. Reid
... silence, only broken by sundry "How d'ye dos?" and "Good mornings!" interchanged with their friends, till ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... el invierno el viejo habia frio, ca el fijo le habia tornado la buena ropa con que se cobria, e rogo a un su nieto, fijo de su fijo, que rogase a su padre que le diese alguna ropa para se cobrir; e el mozo apenas pudo alcanzar de su padre dos varas de sayal para su abuelo, e quedabanle al fijo otros dos. E el mozo llorando rogo al padre que le diese las otros dos, e tanto lloro, que gelas hobo de dar, e demandole que para que las queria, e respondiole: "Quierolas guardar fasta que tu seas tal ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... finger of that ring, And crowne mine with't awhile; Now I restor't. Pray, dos it bring Back with it more of soile? Or shines it not as innocent, As honest, as ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace
... th' schooil yesterneet, An Jimmy wor thear,—tha's seen Jim? An he hutch'd cloise to me in a bit, To ax me for th' number o'th' hymn; Aw thowt 't wor a gaumless trick, For he heeard it geen aght th' same as me; An he just did th' same thing tother wick,— It made fowk tak nooatice, dos't see. An when aw wor gooin towards hooam, Aw heeard som'dy comin behund: 'Twor pitch dark, an aw thowt if they coom, Aw should varry near sink into th' graund. Aw knew it wor Jim bi his traid, An aw tried to get aght ov his gate; But a'a! tha minds, lass, aw wor flaid, Aw wor nivver i' sich en ...
— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley
... country. He had a drove of them. He hired them out. He hired mama once to a doctor, Dr. Willbanks. Mama said old master thought she would learn how to have children from him the reason he sent her there so much. When they had big to-dos old master sent mama over there. She never seen no money till about freedom. She loved to get hired out to be off from him. They all had young babies about but her. He was cross and her husband was cross. She had pleasure hired out. ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration
... plus rude hiver j'ai le dos toujours nu: Et, quoique fort commode, a peine m'a-t-on vu, Qu'ausitot neglige, je ...
— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme
... a farm, only different," remarked the delicatessen man. "Dot iss a nice lot of cows you got, Songpird. I dink dos cows vould make apout a million pounds of frankfurters, not?" and at this remark there was a ...
— The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch - The Cowboys' Double Round-Up • Edward Stratemeyer
... the other way you see something was telling me all the time Id have to introduce myself not knowing me from Adam very funny wouldnt it Im his wife or pretend we were in Spain with him half awake without a Gods notion where he is dos huevos estrellados senor Lord the cracked things come into my head sometimes itd be great fun supposing he stayed with us why not theres the room upstairs empty and Millys bed in the back room he could do his writing and studies at the table in there ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... la sala de clase por la puerta. La puerta es grande y ancha. Nuestra sala de clase tiene dos puertas y tres ventanas. Las ventanas son de vidrio y por ellas entran en la sala de clase la luz y el aire. En la sala de clase hay muchos bancos para los discipulos. Hay tambien una mesa para el maestro. La mesa del maestro esta ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy
... de su potentissima Magestad, Como a la clara paresce por los dichos articulos, de che embiamos el tractado al Senor Iuan Tipton nuestro commissario, para le muestrar a vostra Alteza. Contra el tenor de los quales articulos por dos galeras de su ciudad de Alger ha sido hechado al fondo en la mar vn des nuestros nauios que venia de Patras, que es en la Morea, cargado de corintes y otras mercaderias, que alla se compraron, y las mas de ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt
... Apologia, 523: Pleraque tamen rei familiaris in nomen uxoris callidissima fraude confert, etc.; id., 545, 546 proves further the power of the wife: ea condicione factam conjunctionem, si nullis a me susceptis liberis vita demigrasset, ut dos omnis, etc.—evidently the woman was dictating the disposal of ...
— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker
... hut village appeared in a clearing on the right bank. This was Dos Hermanos (Two Brothers), where people who left Gatun early in the morning usually stopped for breakfast, and their boatmen stopped for gossip. But Maria only shook his head at sight of it, and he and Francisco paused ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... who was murdered by his brother, Giaffir (pacha of Aby'dos). After the death of his brother, Giaffir (2 syl.) took Selim under his charge and brought him up, but treated him with considerable cruelty. Giaffir had a daughter named Zuleika (3 syl.), with whom Selim fell ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... roadways continually falling off in excellence. Here are M. Cormier's own words: "Mais, par exemple, comme routes, Dieu que c'est mauvais! Malgre cela, j'y retournerai; le pays vaut la peine que l'on affronte les cailloux, les ornieres, les dos d'ane at les derapages sur le sol mouille, comme je l'ai ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
... Doble casamiento entre dos familias. Pag-aasawa ng isang lalaki't isang babae ng isang mag-anak sa mga tao ...
— Dictionary English-Spanish-Tagalog • Sofronio G. Calderon
... fifteen shillings a-week; with, besides Sundays, a hundred saints' days or holidays in the year, put her labour and produce quite hors de combat in the race of competition. A Spanish operative would no more toil on a dia de dos cruces, (two saints on one day,) than he would fast on a feast-day, with an odorous olla podrida before him on ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. - June, 1843.,Vol. LIII. • Various
... the women, and the procession passed on along the road that led past Dos d'Ane. The steamy haze lay thicker here. The wind drove it past in slow coils, but its skirts seemed to cling to the heather and bracken as though reluctant to loose its ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... Mr. Dos Passos' presentation (Three Soldiers) of the experiences of privates in the U.S. Army during the War ...
— Contemporary American Literature - Bibliographies and Study Outlines • John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert
... She was addressed as domina, by all members of the family. See Marquardt, Privatleben, p. 57 note 3. It should be noted that she had brought a contribution to the family resources in the form of a dowry (dos) given her by her father ...
— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler
... pitch. "And this utterance of two words is then beyond your ability? It appears you cannot speak two words with proper emphasis!" [Footnote: In a letter to Madarae Denis, Voltaire wrote: "Tout le monde me reproche que le roi a fait dos vers pour d'Arnaud, des vers qui ne sont pas ce qu'il a fait de micux; mais songez qu'a quatre cent lieues de Paris il est bien difficile de savoir si un homme qu'on lui recommende a du merite ou non; de plus c'est ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach |
