"Stele" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... werre gret woone,[54] certayne. A drye somer shal be that yeere; Alle that been borne that day in-feere, They been stronge and coveytous, But theyre ende shal be petous;[55] They shal dye with swerd or knyff. If thou stele ought, hit leesethe thy lyfe; But if thou falle seeke, certayne, Thou shalt tourne ...
— A Righte Merrie Christmasse - The Story of Christ-Tide • John Ashton
... ne'er was harm in anything, But it came by misgoverning: For one word of evil guiding May lose a kingdom or a king! A sound truth this which all can feel From the romance of Sir Greye Stele. Ye rulers all who bear the bell, Weigh it, I ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... Carminvola, were men of armes, whom although thei wer on foote, thei were covered all with stele, and therefore thei wer able to make the profe thei did: so that me thinkes, that a power ought to be armed as thei, mindyng to make ...
— Machiavelli, Volume I - The Art of War; and The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli
... that my only chance was to go to Alabama, or, in fact, into the field itself, as a civilian! This was a dreary prospect. However, I made up my mind to it, and was walking along the street in a very sombre state of mind, for I was going to a country like that described in "Sir Grey Stele"— ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... of the root forming the central core is the stele and at its periphery there is a single layer of cells called the pericycle. The arrangement of the xylem and the phloem is different from that of the stem. They lie side by side on different radii, and not one behind the other on the same radius ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
... needed, two metres granted for five years. Romilly, on behalf of the actors of the Odeon, had paid the cemetery board 300 francs—to be exact, 301 fr. 80 centimes. He had even made plans for a monument, a broken stele with comedy masks suspended upon it. But no decision had been come ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France |
