"Ret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Teresa corrected her quickly. "Marg'ret's three months older than me. First they were going to have me, but Marg'ret's the oldest. And she does it awfully nicely, doesn't she, Alanna? Sister Celia says it's really the most important thing of the day. And we all stand round Marg'ret while she does it. And the best of it all is, it's ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... Scamperdale,' continued Mr. Bragg, scrutinizing our friend attentively, 'was as likely a man, sir, as ever I see'd, sir, to make an 'untsman, for he had a deal of ret (rat) ketchin' cunnin' about him, and, as I said before, didn't care one dim for his neck, but a more signal disastrous failure was never recognized. It was quite ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... Marg'ret, You're welcome here to me; A fairer bower than e'er you saw. I'll bigg this night ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... beauty;—wilt thou form a garland Round the fair brow of some beloved maiden? Pure though she be, unhallowed temple never, Flow'ret! shall wear thee. ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
... hue With tendril and flow'ret, The grace of the view, What land can o'erpower it? Thou mountain of beauty, Methinks it might suit thee, The homage of beauty To claim as a queen. What needs it? Adoring Thy reign, we see pouring The wealth of their store in Already, I ween. The seasons—scarce ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid Low ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... favored breeze That dallied with your flowing hair, Begrudged the songsters in the trees And longed to be a flow'ret fair— Some favorite blossom like heartease— ...
— Poems - Vol. IV • Hattie Howard
... had its beginning, Never did a lovelier flow'ret blossom, Than the flow'ret in our own days blooming; ...
— Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic - Nations • Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
... Pilots in vain repeat their compass o'er, Until of him they learn that one point more The constant magnet to the pole doth hold, Steel to the magnet, Coventry to gold. Muscovy sells us pitch, and hemp, and tar; Iron and copper, Sweden; Munster, war; Ashley, prize; Warwick, custom; Cart'ret, pay; But Coventry doth ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... Marg'ret," to grandmother, "why didn't you keep your little girl shut up in a band-box, while all the other girls were having good times and getting lovers? She might have been a queer, particular, fidgety old maid, ...
— A Little Girl of Long Ago • Amanda Millie Douglas |
