"Recusant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with his mother and Seth, and he noticed with surprise that Bartle Massey was absent too—all the more agreeable for Mr. Joshua Rann, who gave out his bass notes with unusual complacency and threw an extra ray of severity into the glances he sent over his spectacles at the recusant ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... whether it is safe or prudent to imitate, in a fictitious narrative, and often with a view to a ludicrous effect, the scriptural style of the zealots of the seventeenth century; and secondly, whether the recusant presbyterians, collectively considered, do not carry too reverential and sacred a character to be treated by an unknown ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... (slyly, as if addressing the damsel)— So now, Amaryllis the truth of your ill-disguised grief I discover! You pined for a favorite youth with cityfied damsels hobnobbing. And soon your surroundings partook of your grief for your recusant lover— The pine trees, the copse and the brook for Tityrus ever ...
— John Smith, U.S.A. • Eugene Field |
