"Tod" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... excuse Eisleben? Eisleben is incited by the devil, who has taken possession of him entirely. You will see what a stir he will make after my death! Ihr werdet wohl erfahren, was er nach meinem Tod fuer einen Laerm wird anrichten!" (Preger ...
— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente
... the same, at the twelfth hour before mid-day, or thereby, in the year, day, month, indiction, and pontificate as above, there being present discreet men, Masters Ninian Spottiswoode, Archdeacon of the furesaid Chapel Royal, Stirling; John Tod, Alexander Painter, William Atkyn, Nicholas Buchan, all of the Chapel; James Aikman, burgess of Edinburgh; John Abercrummy, and Alexander Ramsay, with divers others, witnesses ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various
... threated the duke's life, and that Tod had said to him there was a way to even the matter ...
— Nancy Stair - A Novel • Elinor Macartney Lane
... an old-fashioned book called THE MOOR AND THE LOCH, by John Colquhoun, which is full of contagious enthusiasm. Thomas Tod Stoddart was a most impassioned angler, (though over-given to strong language,) and in his ANGLING REMINISCENCES he has touched the subject with a happy hand,—happiest when he breaks into poetry and tosses out a song for the fisherman. Professor ...
— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke
... [Greek: propilio]) dieser Kirchen [Greek: tes 'Aetiou] zeigte mir Theodosius den Ort, da der letzte Christliche Kaeyser Constantinus als er bey der Tuerckischen Eroberung der Stadt fliehen wollen, von Pferde gestuertzet, und tod gefunden ...
— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen
... prefect of the twentieth legion, to the god Sylvanus, forming another instance how much the wild and silvan character of the country disposed the feelings of the Romans to acknowledge the presence of the rural deities. The altar is preserved at Drygrange, the seat of Mr. Tod.] ...
— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott
... of inanity has been haunting my ears. Tone down The Captive! Tone down the faith and rapture of my whole life, until it is what the reading public will find natural!—And tone down the Liebes-Tod—and tone down the ...
— The Journal of Arthur Stirling - "The Valley of the Shadow" • Upton Sinclair
... that lag "My forest brook along: "When the Ivy-tod is heavy with snow, "And the Owlet whoops to the wolf below ...
— Lyrical Ballads 1798 • Wordsworth and Coleridge
... in allowing us to admire without stint those smaller works in which his characteristic gifts displayed themselves at the best. Thrawn Janet is one of these, and the story of Tod Lapraik, told by Andie Dale in Catriona, is another. Stevenson himself declared that if he had never written anything except these two stories he would still have been a writer. We hope that there would be votes cast for Will o' the ...
— The Bibliotaph - and Other People • Leon H. Vincent
... he canna be weel, and maun hae a tod (fox) in 's stamack, or something o' that nater. For what he eats is awfu'. An' I think whiles he jist gangs up the stair to ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald |
