"Rost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... would with pleasure do so if he dared; but that the caution against it which he had got that very day from the Board rendered the thing impossible. Ere the squire left him, however, his scruples were overcome, and the baronet, before he went to bed that night, had a rost duck for supper, with two bottles of excellent claret to wash it down and ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... wisan Welandes ban, ths goldsmithes the ws gio mrost? Forthy ic cwth ths wisan Welandes ban, forthy ngum ne mg eorthbuendra, se craft losian the him Crist onlnth. Ne mg mon fre thy eth nne wrccan his craftes beniman the mon oncerran mg sunnan on swifan and thisne swiftan rodor of his riht ryne rinca nig. Hwa wat nu ths ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle
... the actor says. On this the speaker tells him that he had better come nearer; and if he cannot find a seat, there is room for him to walk away. Possibly the verb "ambulo" may be intended to signify in this case either "to walk" or "to stand," in contradistinction to sitting. Rost, with some reason, suggests "abscedito" "walk out," in ...
— The Captiva and The Mostellaria • Plautus |
