"Morne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... out of several of the islands. That of Grenada terminates on the north in a tall cliff called Le Morne des Sauteurs, over which the white men compelled the flying Indians to leap to their death. Not one Carib was left ...
— Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate • Charles M. Skinner
... {28} on the morne, Two boldest men that ever wer borne, I weyne, or ere shall bee: Tone was Gilbert Griffin sonne, Ful mickle worship hadde hee wonne, ...
— Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England • Robert Bell
... Headlong. Good. Pass the bottle. (Un morne silence). Sir Christopher does not seem to have raised our spirits. Chromatic, favour us with a specimen of your vocal powers. Something ...
— Headlong Hall • Thomas Love Peacock
... mak haste, my mirry men all, Our guid schip sails the morne." "O say na sae, my master deir, For I feir ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... the daye with merry cheare, To drinke and revell every night, To card and dice from eve to morne, It was, I ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols
... ever since been known as "Morne des Sauteurs," or the "Hill of the Leapers." I have stood upon the extreme point of this promontory, where I could look down some eighty or a hundred feet into the raging abyss beneath, and listened to the mournful tradition as detailed by one of the oldest inhabitants of the island. ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper |
