"ELISA" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... C.—Elisa read the story well. (The teacher praised her and gave her a good mark. Elisa was ...
— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori
... yeild all whose tender Strains, Inspire the Dreams of Maids and lovesick Swains; Who taint the unripen'd Girl with amorous Fire, And hint the first faint Dawnings of Desire: Wing each Love-Atom, that in Embryo lies, And teach young Parthenissa's Breasts to rise. A new Elisa writes," etc., etc. ...
— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher
... on a certain occasion, Ludovico resolved, at the peril of his life, to make a rash expedition for the sake of gazing for one second on the face he adored, and accordingly appeared as if by magic in the palace of his well-beloved. He reached the nuptial chamber. Elisa Pernetti, whose heart most probably shared the desire of her lover, heard the sound of his footsteps and divined his intention. She saw through the walls of her chamber a countenance glowing with love. She rose from her marriage bed, ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part II. • Honore de Balzac
... later period into the western parts of Europe, retained in a greater degree the primitive words and phrases of their native language. You will find amongst them the names Oenus, Resus, AEneas, Hector, Achilles, Heliodorus, Theodorus, Ajax, Evander, Uliex, Anianus, Elisa, Guendolena, and many others, bearing marks of their antiquity. It is also to be observed, that almost all words in the British language correspond either with the Greek or Latin, as [Greek text which cannot be reproduced], ...
— The Description of Wales • Geraldus Cambrensis
... her cheek as she replied, "Before I permit my daughter to answer the questions of a stranger, you will be so kind as explain your right to question." The stranger sprang from his seat at the sound of her voice, and exclaimed in a voice tremulous from emotion, "don't you know me Elisa, I am your long lost brother George." The reader will, doubtless, be better able to imagine the scene which followed than I am to describe it. Everything was soon explained, many letters had been sent which never reached their ...
— Stories and Sketches • Harriet S. Caswell
... from Elisa Bardinelli, telling me all about it!" She tossed some closely-written sheets to Nora, who took ...
— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... thought directly, independently of the form in which it is expressed. Mrs Piper has often pronounced words and short sentences in foreign languages. Phinuit likes to say, "Bonjour, comment vous portez vous? Au revoir!" and to count in French. Mme. Elisa, an Italian, the dead sister of Mrs Howard, succeeded in writing or pronouncing some short sentences in more or less odd Italian. I find also at a sitting where the communicator was supposed to be a young Hawaian three or four words of Hawaian very ...
— Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research • Michael Sage |
