"Mu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... circumfused in speechless love—[mt][430] Their full divinity inadequate That feeling to express, or to improve— The Gods become as mortals—and man's fate[mu] Has moments like their brightest; but the weight Of earth recoils upon us;—let it go! We can recall such visions, and create, From what has been, or might be, things which grow Into thy statue's form, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... says the little interpreter after a snappy French salute which is recognized by a slight motion of the colonel's thumb in the general direction of his ear. "Ze sarzhont, she say, zat ze French man will please to have ze tobak, ze masheen gun am-mu-nish-own and ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
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— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve
... was on the point of giving way to a seemly despair when a message concerned with Mu, the only daughter of Ko'en Cheng, reached him. It professed a high-minded regard for his welfare, and added that although the one who was inspiring the communication had been careful to avoid seeing him on the occasion of his entry into Ti-foo, it was impossible for her not to be impressed ...
— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah
... their mornin' counsel tak: What stacks he wants to thrash; what rigs to till; How big a birn[53] maun lie on bassie's[54] back, For meal an' mu'ter[55] to the thirlin' mill. Neist, the gudewife her hirelin' damsels bids Glower through the byre, an' see the hawkies[56] bound; Tak tent, case Crummy tak her wonted tids,[57] An' ca' the laiglen's[58] treasure on the ground; Whilk ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... state: Sultan and Prime Minister His Majesty Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji HASSANAL Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah (since 5 October 1967); note-the sultan is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: Sultan and Prime Minister His Majesty Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji HASSANAL Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... Catalani again filled an engagement in England, making her reappearance in Mayer's comic pasticcio, "Il Fanatico per la Mu-sica," the airs of which had been expressly selected for the display of her vocal tours de force. Crowded audiences again welcomed her whom absence had made an idol dearer than ever, and her transcendent power as a singer seemed to ...
— Great Singers, First Series - Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag • George T. Ferris
... for the empire of India here described is very like that which preceded it, between the sons of Jahangir, in which Shah Jahan succeeded in destroying all his brothers and nephews; and that which succeeded it, forty years after,[1] in which Mu'azzam, the second of the four sons of Aurangzeb, did the same;[2] and it may, like the rest of Indian history, teach us a few useful lessons. First, we perceive the advantages of the law of primogeniture, which accustoms people to consider ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... disciple of Confucius, name Tuan-mu Tz'u, style Tzu-kung, born 520 B.C.; i. 10, tells how the Master learns about government; i. 15, asks were it well to be poor but no flatterer; ii. 13, told that a gentleman sorts words to deeds; iii. 17, wishes to ...
— The Sayings Of Confucius • Confucius
... in making them disgorge their ill-gotten gains. Moslem historians are unanimous in his praise. Europeans find him an anachorete couronne, a froide et respectable figure, who lacked the diplomacy of Mu'awiyah and the energy of Al-Hajjaj. His principal imitator was Al-Muhtadi bi'llah, who longed for a return to the rare old days ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... stayed over night at the Phi-Mu House, at Columbia, with Ally. I had stayed up nearly all night, rather, arguing, in behalf of extreme socialism, with the boys ... till people, hearing our voices through the open windows, had actually gathered ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... ate them, alone in the great wild woods, far from e-ven the camp of the In-di-ans. Once, at least, we know, from a little book in which each night George wrote of what they had done that day, that they saw a grand war-dance of the In-di-ans; the mu-sic by which they danced was made by a pot half full of wa-ter, with a deer-skin o-ver the top, and a gourd filled with shot; this must have made queer mu-sic ...
— Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable • Jean S. Remy
... their souls were gladdened by meat and drink, they mutually related that which was with them and, revealed their secrets from concealment. The first to discourse was a man, a Captain of the Watch, hight Mu'in al-Din[FN7] whose heart was wholly occupied with the love of fair women; and he said, "Harkye, all ye people of high degree, I will acquaint you with an extraordinary affair which fortuned me aforetime." Then he began ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... a fairy romance, Below us the laughter and mu- Sic, while now and again, such a glance As is given on earth but to few From the depths of your eyes, fond and true, Set me dreaming of all their contents, Till I woke,—something hid them, from view,— The ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles
... on mu way to Grant. An' them roads as I've traversed isn't what I'd call the best in a fair and ...
— At Fault • Kate Chopin
... socabas ote enre ye char, que camele Gacho ta Romani Cha tiro nao, qu'abillele tiro chim, querese tiro lao acoi opre ye puve sarta se querela ote enre ye char. Dinanos sejonia monro manro de cata chibes, ta estormenanos monrias bisauras sasta mu estormenamos a monrias bisabadores; na nos meques petrar enre cayque pajandia, lillanos abri de saro chungalipen. Persos tiro sinela o chim, Undevel, tiro ye silna bast, tiro saro lachipen enre saro chiros. ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
... qusa Tipereri, Kgam'se gaqu ha; Keise qusa Tipereri Artie ti gxawo si mu. Hamnci gqo Pikadili. Hamnci Gqo Lester Skuer Keise qusa, qusa Tipereri Mar, ti xawo nxeba ha. ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
... as demonstrated by Loeffler and since confirmed by other investigators, is Bacillus necrophorus, often spoken of as the bacillus of necrosis. This organism varies in form from a coccoid rod to long, wavy filaments, which may reach a length of 100 mu; the width varies from 0.75 mu to 1 mu. Hence it is described as polymorphic. It does not stain by Gram, but takes the ordinary anilin dyes, often presenting, especially the longer forms, a beaded appearance. A characteristic of the ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
... sanction of Yarranton, but declares the dialogue to be a forgery, and that the alleged conference never took place. "His innocence, when he heard of it, only provoked a smile, with this answer, Spreta vilescunt, falsehoods mu st perish, and are soonest destroyed by contempt; so that he needs no further vindication. The writer then proceeds at some length to vindicate the Captain's famous work and the propositions ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles
... et le cours des eaux. Ce sont donc de violentes explosions qui ont disperse ces blocs; et alors ils deviennent un nouveau trait cosmologique de quelque importance: car rien ne se meut, ni ne paroit s'etre mu depuis bien des siecles, dans ces lieux qui montrent tant de desordre: un tapis de verdure couvre tout, en conservant les contours baroques du sol. Le betail ne sauroit paturer dans de telles prairies; mais l'industrieux montagnard ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... price when grown; and sell her he will. He still pretends to call her his niece; but that won't be for long. He is teaching her to sing, to add to her value. A! But my old heart is almost breaking for her sake. Mu, mu!" and Sesostris puffed his groans through his nostrils. "Think of it! He has an idea to sell her to that rich Roman, Lucius Calatinus—and then I don't dare hint ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis |
