"Gre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hour or so is given to the passengers to alight and look at the wonderful Falls. The gentleman who told me the story informed me that as the two ladies were getting back into the carriage he asked them if they were going to dine at once. They, ignorant of the vastness of the "gre—e—at country Amuraka," replied, "Oh, no, thanks, we are going to dine with our friends when we arrive. It can't be long now, we have been travelling ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... is to sey, Be ware of presumpcioun, be ware of pride, Take not the fyrst place, my childe, be no way, 493 Till odir be sette manerly abyde, Presomcion is often sette asyde, And Avalith f[r]om his highe[1] de-gre, [Sidenote 1: MS. hight.] And he sette vppe that hath ...
— Caxton's Book of Curtesye • Frederick J. Furnivall
... untylle Dethe doe 'pere, Here lyche a foule empoysoned leathel[40] tree, Whyche sleaeth[41] everichone that commeth nere, Soe wille I fyxed unto thys place gre[42]. I to bement[43] haveth moe cause than thee; 45 Sleene in the warre mie boolie[44] fadre lies; Oh! joieous I hys mortherer would slea, And bie hys syde for aie enclose myne eies. Calked[45] from everych joie, heere wylle I blede; Fell ys the Cullys-yatte[46] ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... beamed. "Think of a gre't big man like you playin' 'pretend' with a foolish old woman like me! I thought you had ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... meme de le servir de leurs armes s'il a guerre. Mais s'ils quittent ses domaines et qu'ils passent sur ceux de son ennemi, ils serviront celui-ci a son tour contre l'autre, et on ne leur en sait pas mauvais gre, parce que telle est leur ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... silly fellow.—A gentleman was enlarging to a Winterton lad on the virtues of Spanish juice [liquorice water]. "Ah,then, ye'll ha' been to th' mines, whe{a}re thaay gets it," the boy exclaimed; whereupon the mother broke in with—"A gre{a}t cauf! Duz he think 'at thaay dig it oot o' th' grund, sa{a}me as thaay ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... that's nothing to what used to occur to the Marquis of W———. They say, that if he deposited a broach, a ring, or a watch upon his table, a hand and arm, like that of a genius in a fairy tale, was seen to introduce itself bon-gre, mal-gre, through the casement, and instantly they ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... intractable Jesuits and vanquished Father Gordon. The poor man who had predicted ruin now viewed the magnificent congregation with a sullen face. "He has a nice voice, too, that's the strange part of it; I could have taught him, but he is too proud to admit he was wrong." However, bon gre mal gre, Father Gordon had had to submit to Monsignor. When Monsignor makes up his mind, things have to be done. If a thousand pounds had not been enough, he would have given two thousand pounds; Monsignor was rich, but he was also tactful, and did not rely ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore
... ma bonne amie: je vous donne la permission de coeur et de gre. Votre travail dans ma maison a toujours ete admirable, rempli de zele et de discretion: vous avez bien le droit de vous amuser. Sortez donc tant que vous voudrez. Quant a votre choix de connaissances, j'en suis contente; ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... things on the hoss, Squire, that the man he ketched said he did n' care no gre't abaout; but perhaps you'd like to have 'em fetched to the mansion-haouse. Ef y' did n' care abaout 'em, though, I should n' min' keepin' on 'em; they might come handy some time or 'nother; they ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... cur'us part on it. He's daid an' was buried las' Sunday ebenin'—buried deep. I know, 'ca'se I wus dar m'se'f. But dat night when I had gone to bed an' wus gittin' off to meh fus' nap, I was woke up on a sudden by de noise uv a gre't stompin' an' trompin' an snortin' in de road. I jump up an' look out de winder, an' I 'clar' 'fo' Gracious if dar warn't Mose, natchel as life, horses an' hack an' all, tearin' by at a break-neck speed. ...
— The Dreamer - A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe • Mary Newton Stanard
... waltz above everything. While Mueller, who professed to be an animated time-table, swore that we were just too late for the ten minutes past ten train, and that there would be no other before eleven forty-five. So Madame Marotte was carried off, bon gre, mal gre, to a dancing-booth, where gentlemen were admitted on payment of forty centimes per head, and ladies went ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
... cabinet, qu'a la tete des armees; un ennemi que la haine du nom Francais avoit rendu capable d'imaginer de grandes choses et de les executer; un de ces genies qui semblent etre nes pour mouvoir a leur gre les peuples et les souverains; un grand homme, s'il n'avoit jamais voulu etre roi."—Oraison funebre ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... missus's favourite hen; I had been and killed her for a sarpint!" He sighed, then, after a moment's pause, lowered his voice to a whisper: "Now suppose I was to go and take some poor Christian for one of these gre-at bloody dragons I do see at odd times, I might do him a mischief, you know, and not mean him no harm neither. Oh, dooee take and have me locked up, gentlemen, dooee now: tellee I ain't fit to be about, my poor head is ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... his pretty little wife. Mr. LITTLE makes much, perhaps almost a Little too much, of his small but essentially important part,—they are all important parts,—and of Miss SYBIL GREY can be said "Nous savons Gre a Mlle. Sybil." Mr. SIDNEY WARDEN's Character Sketch of the young and rather raw German Waiter, is excellent; the Waiter being "raw," is not overdone. Not a dull second in the farce. Will our B.C. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, August 6, 1892 • Various |
