"Trow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... did ye sell yoursel' for, Sandy Beg? It took the son of a Hieland robber like you to tell tales of a honest man's cargo. It was an ill day when the Scots cam to Orkney, I trow." ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... lay thy branch of laurel down!" Why, what thou'st stole is not enow; And, were it lawfully thine own, Does Rogers want it most, or thou? Keep to thyself thy withered bough, Or send it back to Doctor Donne:[33] Were justice done to both, I trow, He'd ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. - Poetry • George Gordon Byron
... no roast but a nut-brown toast, And a crab laid in the fire; A little bread shall do me stead, Much bread I not desire, No frost nor snow, no wind, I trow, Can hurt me if I wold; I am so wrapp'd and thoroughly lapp'd Of jolly ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... if he's faithless, and minds na his Nannie, Flow still between us, thou wide-roaring main; May I never see it, may I never trow it, But, dying, believe that my Willie's ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... is the truth I trow: Winsome walnut can never be mine. Poets are cheap. And their poetry. So Where are the wardrobes of ...
— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells
... bailie's island of Arran being the roast beef, and the craig of Ailsa the plum-pudding, and Plada a butter- boat. Nobody enjoyed the jocularity of the business more than myself; but I trembled when I thought of the escape that my honour and character had with the lord advocate. I trow, Bailie Booble never set himself so forward from ...
— The Provost • John Galt
... sands, for the jolly Ramsgate Sands, Where the children shout and tumble, spade and bucket in their hands. Where sandy castles rise in scores, I trow a man might float A fleet of six-inch pleasure-skiffs on many a deep-dug moat. Where, while the banjos discord make, the German bands make noise, And nursemaids by the hundred shepherd flocks of girls and boys. Where the boys tuck up their trousers, and the girls tuck up their frocks, A paddling ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 3, 1892 • Various
... during the summer of 1850, more than one-third of Her Majesty's fifty-ninth regiment were cut off by diseases incident to the climate. And the remark of an officer attached to Her Majesty's service, that it was a fine place for death vacancies, has more truth than poetry in it, I trow. ...
— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay
... which made a great difference to Lorna and to myself, I trow; as well as to all the five million people who dwell in this island of England; such a frost as never I saw before,* neither hope ever to see again; a time when it was impossible to milk a cow for icicles, or for a man to shave some of his beard (as I liked to ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... short and slender too, Yet to the expectant throng, Before they to the socket burnt, The time, I trow, ...
— Women of the Romance Countries • John R. Effinger
... strange! How strange! Oh happy thou! And couldst thou ask no other boon Than thy poor bracelet's price? That brow Resplendent as the autumn moon Must have bewildered thee, I trow, And made thee lose thy senses all." A dim light on the pedler now Began to dawn; and he let fall His bracelet basket in his haste, And backward ran the way he came; What meant the vision fair and chaste, Whose eyes were they—those ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... unto the bone, I trow, Said this young child, and by the law of kind I should have died, yea, many ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... that it was as large as Rome, and as well garnished with temples, and that for that reason the Romans 'blotted it out.' The people here may thank the desert which we have crossed, that they are not as Carthage. Aurelian, I trow, little dreams what glory is to be won here in the East, or else he would not waste his time upon the ...
— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware
... universality. "Universality is such a proof of truth as truth itself is ashamed of. The most singular and strongest part of human authority is properly in the wisest and the most virtuous, and these, I trow, are not the most universal." William Chillingworth, a man of larger if not keener mind, had been taught by an early conversion to Catholicism, and by a speedy return, the insecurity of any basis for belief but ...
— History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) - Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 • John Richard Green
... billie, bonny billie, "Will ye go to the wood wi' me? "We'll ca' our horse hame masterless, "An' gar them trow ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... meadows—the haymaking is about, and the farmers are anxious for men. But the moucher passes by and looks for quaking grass, bunches of which have a ready sale. Fledgeling goldfinches and linnets, young rabbits, young squirrels, even the nest of the harvest-trow mouse, and occasionally a snake, bring him in a little money. He picks the forget-me-nots from the streams and the 'blue-bottle' from the corn: bunches of the latter are sometimes sold in London at a price that seems extravagant to those who have seen whole fields tinted with ...
— The Amateur Poacher • Richard Jefferies
... thing was moving, Leaves and water, flowers and raiment, And the footsteps of the darling— Think you I remain'd as lifeless As the rock on which I rested? No, I trow—not I! ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various
... head pokes; Twenty others do the same:— Chatter, clatter!—creaks and croaks All the year the same old game!— 'See my spinning!' cries one dame, 'Five long ells of cloth, I trow!' Cries another, 'Mine must go, Drat it, to the ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... to be hanged by the neck till I am dead, am I? And for a murder which I never committed, and in the perpetration of which I had no hands? Is it, my masters? I trow so. But I can afford to spit—for I did commit a murder, nevertheless, a beautiful secret murder that no one could possibly ever bring to my home or cast in ...
— Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren
... princely maids, And by their sides have often lain; I should pine, I trow, if bid to go To bed with ...
— Hafbur and Signe - a ballad • Thomas J. Wise
... glore, Professouris of hipocrisie, And doctouris in idolatrie, Stout fyschares with the Feindis nett, The upclosars of Heavins yett, Cankcarit corruptars of the Creid, Homlok sawares amangest good seid, To trow in traytouris, that do men tyiste, The hie way kennand thame fra Chryst, Monstouris with the Beast his mark, Dogges that never stintes to bark, Kirk men that are with[180] Christ unkend, A sect that Sathane self ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... Crumbocke is a very good cowe, Shee ha beene alwayes true to the payle, She has helpt us to butter and cheese, I trow And other things shee will not fayle; I wold be loth to see her pine, Good husband councell take of mee, It is not for us to go soe fine, Man, take thine ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... rear'd far aloft, He bore a very bright and crescent blade, The which he waved so dreadfully, and oft, In meditative spite, that, sore dismay'd, I crept into an acorn-cup for shade; Meanwhile the horrid effigy went by: I trow his look was dreadful, for it made The trembling birds betake them to the sky, For every leaf was lifted by ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... and said that I looked pretty. Now I have grown callous, seeing other fools similarly apparelled. But a year ago, should I have dreamed it possible for me to strut about a fashionable plage in white ducks, a pink shirt, and a yachting-cap? I trow not. They are signs of some sort of madness—whether that of a Jaques or a dingo dog matters ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... I wonder how Cynthia can affect her so above the rest. Here be they are every way as fair as she, and a thought, fairer, I trow. ...
— Cynthia's Revels • Ben Jonson
... into deep musing, keeping his eyes upon Jobst's jack-boots, in which he had stuck a great hunting-knife. At last he spake—"But if I seize her and burn her, will it be better with our race? I trow not; for she can leave the evil spell on us, perhaps, even if she were a hundred times burned. Her magic hath great power. Will burning her break the spell? No; we must act more cunningly with the dragon. Earth cannot help us in this. And here you see, Jobst, why I demand your daughter's help to ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... existence of an evil deity—and some theologies, even Christian ones, have come very near this,—is the religious affection to be transferred from the ethical ideal to any such omnipotent demon? I trow not. Better a thousand times that the human race should perish under his thunderbolts than it should say, "Evil, be ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley
... squires have him sought, And before the king him brought; Full sore wounded was he. They asked what was his name; He said, "Sire, a smith's man; What will ye do with me?" The Christian king said, than, "I trow never smith's man In war was half so wight." "I bid[FN586] you, give me meat and drink And what that I will after think, Till I have kevered[FN587] my might." The king a great oath sware, As soon ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... supper for is dight, He lyes full cold, I trow, this night! Yestreen to chamber I him led, This night Gray-Steel has made his bed. SIR EGER, ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... trow they wil be loath to put any honest man vpon their counsell. But what if they accuse folke to haue bene present at their Imaginar conuentiones in the spirite, when their bodies lyes sencelesse, as ...
— Daemonologie. • King James I
... entirely contribute to our maintenance, and so wander cost-free, and kost-frei over merrie England. But I threw away the golden opportunity—ruthlessly rejected it—thereby incurring the scorn of all scientific philologists (none of whom, I trow, would have lost such a chance). It was for doing the same thing that Matthew Arnold immortalised a clerke of Oxenforde: though it may be that "since Elizabeth" such exploits have lost their prestige, as I knew of two students at the same university who a few years ago ...
— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland
... slow to find,— So the people speak by stealth, Often this hath reached my ears,— All through Rangar's rolling vales. Still I trow that Fiddle Mord, Tried his hand in fight of yore; Sure was never gold-bestower, Such a man for ...
— The story of Burnt Njal - From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga • Anonymous
... the King is to be beaten, it can only be by generals who want to beat him, who will beat him to bits, who will use all means to beat him, who will gladly see in their armies the men who have the right spirit in them for beating him. Are these the Presbyterians only? I trow not. I know my men; and I tell you that many of those that you call Independents, that you call Anabaptists, Sectaries, and what not, are among the stoutest and godliest in England, and will go as far ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson
... bluster: And your making this riot, Is what she could cry at, Since all her concern's for our welfare and quiet. I would ask any man Of them all that maintain Their passive obedience With such mighty vehemence, That damn'd doctrine, I trow! What he means by it, ho', To trump it up now? Or to tell me in short, What need there is for't? Ye may say, I am hot; I say I am not; Only warm, as the subject on which I am got. There are those alive yet, If they do not forget, May remember what mischiefs it did church ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift
... Calais packet. "Dark lowered the tempest overhead," the waters wildly rolled, Wildly the moon sailed thro' the clouds, "and it grew wondrous cold;" The good ship cleft the darkness, like an iron wedge, I trow, As the steward whispered kindly, "you had better go below"— Enough! I've viewed with dauntless eye the cattle's bloody tide; Thy horse, proud Duke of Manchester, I've seen straight at me ride; I've braved chance ram-rods from my friends, blank cartridges from foes; The jeers of ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
... honoured, as to appear at any end of so noble a work, I would enter into a fame of taking physic to-morrow, and continue it four or five days, or longer, for your visitation. Mavis. By my faith, a subtle one! Call you this a riddle? what's their plain dealing, trow? ...
— Epicoene - Or, The Silent Woman • Ben Jonson
... man in each outward sense, I trow, With the stamp of a god on your peerless brow. You hold my hand in your thrilling clasp, And my heart grows weak in your subtle grasp, Till I blush in the light of your tender eyes, And dream of a far-of paradise— Almost forgetting that ever from there ...
— Debris - Selections from Poems • Madge Morris
... said the worthy Bishop, "No; That is a length to which, I trow, Colonial Bishops cannot go. You may express surprise At finding Bishops deal in pride— But, if that trick I ever tried, I should appear undignified ...
— Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs • W. S. Gilbert
... A very ingenious invention is here offered to the public through Mr. J. F. Trow, of 50 Greene street, New York. It consists of a hollow Globe made of soft iron, and Magnetic Objects, representing the races of mankind, animals, trees, light-houses, are supplied with it, which, adhering to the surface, illustrate clearly the attraction ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... meditation of Oisille, and that familiarity with the Scriptures which, as Hircan himself says, "I trow we all read and know." And then there is the note given by two other curious stories of Brantome. One tells how the Queen of Navarre watched earnestly for hours by the bedside of a dying maid of honour, that she might see whether the parting of the ...
— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre
... got him on his saddle, There was a mighty shoving to and fro To lift him up, and muckle care and woe, So heavy was this carcase of a ghost. Then to the Manciple thus spake our host:- "Since drink upon this man hath domination, By nails! and as I reckon my salvation, I trow he would have told a sorry tale; For whether it be wine, or it be ale, That he hath drank, he speaketh through the nose, And sneezeth much, and he hath got the POSE, {19} And also hath given us business enow To keep him on his horse, ...
— Playful Poems • Henry Morley
... are thy gates, Dinas Bran on the height! Thy warders are blood-crows and ravens, I trow; Now no one will wend from the field of the fight To the fortress on high, save ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... say, 'Pring vasser.' We pring a little. Den you say to us, 'Tarn you! why in hell you shtop?' And you say, 'Von I tell you pring vasser, pring till I say shtop.' Vun time more to-day you say, 'Pring vasser,' and you never say shtop. You say, 'Trow on.' We trow on. Vat you say we do. You not say vat you mean, dat ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... and spake the noble king— And an angry man, I trow, was he— 'It ill becomes ye, bauld Bucclew, To talk o' reif or felonie; For, if every man had his ain cow, A right puir ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton
... so: a deed is do Whereof much harm shall grow; My destiny is for to die A shameful death, I trow; Or else to flee. The one must be. None other way I know, But to withdraw as an out-law, And take me to my bow. Wherefore, adieu, my own heart true! None other rede I can: For I must to the green wood go, Alone, a ...
— A Bundle of Ballads • Various
... holds his own at lessons, I trow; but he pretends to have such a horror of us wild Irish, and to wonder not to find us eating potatoes with our fingers, and that I don't wear a petticoat over my head instead of a bonnet, in what he calls the ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to hear them; while we, who should be considering the honor of our country and that it goes now or never upon our hand, whether it shall be ridiculous to all the world, are going to nine-holes or trow madam for our business, like your dumb Venetian, whom this same Sir Politic your resident, that never saw him do anything but make faces, would insinuate to you, at this distance, to have the only knack of state. ...
— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington
... attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books!— I trow, that countenance cannot lie Whose thoughts are legible in ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald
... we see, He builds his nest up in a tree; To this strange dwelling-place he cleaves Because he is so fond of leaves. 'Twas his ancestral cow, I trow, Jumped o'er the moon, so long ago. But he is not so great a rover, Though at the last ...
— A Phenomenal Fauna • Carolyn Wells
... he cried; "have done with this, and the money you demand shall be forthcoming. A pack of fiends were better companions, I trow, than your blackamoor troop. Let me on, then, and I will lead you to my cash-box, and after you have there satisfied yourselves, I pray you to go your ways like honest thieves, ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray
... have sigh'd for wealth, 'Twas all for her, I trow; And if I win Fame's victor-wreath, I'll twine it on her brow. There may be forms more beautiful, And souls of sunnier shine, But none, oh! none so dear to me, As ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur
... to hell's abyss is one sheer flight, I trow; And wedding-ring and bridal bell are will-o'-wisps of woe; And 'tis not wise to love too well, ...
— Songs of a Sourdough • Robert W. Service
... late, gitt oudt, tam you, pack up your pooks und picturs und gitt oudt purty quick or I'll trow you oudt on ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field
... fierce his rage, so fierce his fury grew, That all obscured remained the warrior's sprite; Nor, for forgetfulness, his sword he drew, Or wonderous deeds, I trow, had wrought the knight: But neither this, nor bill, nor axe to hew, Was needed by Orlando's peerless might. He of his prowess gave high proofs and full, Who a tall pine uprooted ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... I trow the bauldest stood aback, Wi' a gape an' a glow'r till their lugs did crack, As the shapeless phantom mum'ling spak, ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... drawing up his blanket-bag around him, sat, pannikin in hand, and received from the cook the half-gill of grog; and after drinking it, there was sometimes an hour's conversation, in which there was more hearty merriment, I trow, than in many a palace,—dry witticisms, or caustic remarks, which made one's sides ache with laughter. An old marine, mayhap, telling a giddy lamby of a seaman to take his advice and never to be more than a simple private; for, as he philosophically argued, "whilst you're that, do you see, you ...
— Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; • Sherard Osborn
... day and night the holy voices rise Through the chill trouble of our earthly air, And enter at the gate of Paradise. Trample no more our flower-fields in such wise, Nor crave the alms of our deep-laden bough; The prayers of holy men are alms enough, I trow." ...
— The Rainbow and the Rose • E. Nesbit
... Some mincing artificer, I trow, fiddling away with wood and wire to make gauds for the fair-day! Hast got him here? If I like him, and she likes him, I'll bring her back when her ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Wut ver you trow dot stein. You tink I am a house side. Donnervetter! I gif you some brains alretty;" and before Abdul, son of Cairo, could think, the little German tripped him to the ground, and as he fell caught him by the hair and dragged him into the boundary lines of the Turkish ...
— The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair - Their Observations and Triumphs • Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA 'Quondam')
... I am not fully satisfied, That this your book will stand, when soundly tried.' Why, what's the matter? 'It is dark.' What though? 'But it is feigned.' What of that? I trow? Some men, by feigned words, as dark as mine, Make truth to spangle and its rays ...
— The Pilgrim's Progress - From this world to that which is to come. • John Bunyan
... The Rev. Mr. Moseley, rector; Mr. Joseph Baker, who at that time was clerk to Mr. Arnold, the Vestry Clerk; Mr. Gutteridge, surgeon; Mr. Freer, and others, took their places in a pew on the north side of the organ. Mr. Muntz, Mr. George Edmonds, Mr. Pare, Mr. Trow, and others in great numbers, sat on the south. The Rector took the chair, and proposed Mr. Reeves as his warden for the coming year. To this, of course, there was no opposition, but on the rector saying he should now proceed to elect a people's ...
— Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men • E. Edwards
... he no hurt no man. Dis man," pointing to the dead Polak, "play cards, fight, stab knife into his arm," said Jacob, pulling up the Dalmatian's coat sleeve to show an ugly gash in the forearm. "Jarema hit him on head, shake him bad, and trow him in corner on ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
... which the King claimed supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs. '"I hard, Mr. James Melvill," said the King, "that ye wreitt a Lettre to the Synod of Fyff at Cowper, quhairin was meikle of Chryst, but lytle guid of the King. Be God I trow ye wes reavand or mad (for he spak so) ye speek utherwayis now. Now, wes that a charitabill judgment of me?"—"Sir," says Mr. James, with a low courtessie, "I wes baith seik and sair in bodie quhan I wreit that Lettre, bot sober and sound in mind. ...
— Andrew Melville - Famous Scots Series • William Morison
... another; when the east part was divided from the west, only for leavened bread and only for keeping of Easter Day; which were indeed no great matters to be strived for; and when in all councils new creeds and new decrees continually were devised. What would these men (trow ye) have said in those days? which side would they specially then have taken? and which would they then have forsaken? which Gospel would they have believed? whom would they have accounted for heretics, and whom for Catholics? And yet what a stir and revel keep they at this time upon two poor names ...
— The Apology of the Church of England • John Jewel
... replied They had just sent it o'er the vessel's side. To this their statement he denial gave, Which made the men with strongest anger rave. He then, most speedily, went down below, And found the box quite safe enough, I trow! He dragged it forth before their very eyes, And they thought best to feign complete surprise. The box secured, they bid the ship Adieu, Then with great joy their journey soon renew. By that conveyance they reach Montreal, Leave that by barges which had comfort small, ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd
... mark you, both are dead, and so Small wonder is it nought should pass Betwixt them in the street, I trow. ...
— A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry • Various
... the lunatic; "mair than ae puir mind can bear, I trow. Stay a bit, and I'll tell you a' about it; for I like ye, Jeanie Deans; a'body spoke weel about ye when we lived in the Pleasaunts. And I mind aye the drink o' milk ye gae me yon day, when I had been on Arthur's Seat ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight
... yet I trow, When sweet rondeau Doth play a part, [10] The curtain drops on June; Veiled is the modest moon— Hushed is ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... days it was a De Brocas, not a Navailles, that ruled there? Father Anselm hath told us a thousand times how the English King issued mandate after mandate bidding him give up his ill-gotten gains, and restore the lands of his rival; and yet he failed to do it. I trow had I been in the place of our grandsire, I would not so tamely have sat down beneath so great an affront. I would have fought to the last drop of my blood to enforce my rights, and win back my lost inheritance Brother, why should not thou and I do that one day? Canst ...
— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green
... my knight, I trow, Ye pay me no regard, But he would take my arm in his If we but ...
— Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry
... of pure virginity, That Christ hath closed 'gainst crime for evermo'; Triumphant Temple of the Trinity, That didst the eternal Tartarus o'erthrow; Princess of peace, imperial Palm, I trow, From thee our Samson sprang invict in fray; Who, with one buffet, Belial hath laid low— Mother of Christ, O Mary, ...
— Our Lady Saint Mary • J. G. H. Barry
... the best wine, and hand it first to the knight," said Robin. "Sir, I much wonder that your clothing is so thin. Tell me one thing, I pray. I trow you must have been made a knight by force, or else you have squandered your means by reckless or riotous living? Perhaps you have been foolish and thriftless, or else have lost all your money in brawling and strife? Or possibly you have been a usurer or a drunkard, or wasted your life in ...
— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)
... to the rose, I trow, The thistle sends, nor to the bee Do wasps bring honey. Wherefore now Should Locker ask a ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... is grazing nigh, A dark-brown maiden is standing by. Then hey my jolly comrade! There's milk I trow for both; The maiden too will kiss us. She ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various
... prayer and his sermons turn the folk to devotion more even than those of Brother Richard, who spake in these Cloisters in the springtime. He knows more than any man living of the times that shall come and shall show us strange portents. I trow we shall gain ...
— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France
... to the Earl of Wiltshire straight: Bid him repair to us to Ely House To see this business. To-morrow next We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow: And we create, in absence of ourself, Our Uncle York lord governor of England; For he is just, and always lov'd us well. Come on, our queen: to-morrow must we part; Be merry, for our time of stay ...
— The Tragedy of King Richard II • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... hundred miles, And run by night and day. Than have that carriage halt for me And hear my Lady say: "Now pray step in and make no din, Step in with me to ride; There's room, I trow, by me, for you And all the ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... person in distress was taken prisoner, I spurred on my horse to see if I could be of use. The placid benignity of the sufferer's aspect moved my commiseration; he stood calm and collected among the musketeers, supporting a woman about his own age, who I trow was his wife. To do her justice she shewed no signs of terror, though she rolled her eyes on those around her with a look of disdain, less suited, methought, to her situation than the dignified patience of her companion. I asked him if he had been a bishop, and he answered, No; but was still ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West
... Gentleman, if he had been able to write any portion of his name would have marked his depositions Wilm Shaxp'r? Does there exist any man who will venture to contend that the great Dramatist, the author of the Immortal plays, would or could have so signed his name? We trow not; indeed, such an abbreviation would be impossible in a legal document in a Court of Law where depositions are required ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... of the same, God wot it was my great folly, For love of one sly knave of them, Good store of that same sweet had he; For all my subtle wiles, perdie, God wot I loved him well enow; Right evilly he handled me, But he loved well my gold, I trow. ...
— Poems & Ballads (Second Series) - Swinburne's Poems Volume III • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... I declare by Him to whom all bow, * Of nothing 'neath her petticoat I trow: Nor meddle with her mouth; nor aught did I * But see and hear her, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... and white is all his wear, He hath no gold, I trow! Wanderer, thou in the wild-wood there, Tell us why ...
— Poems: New and Old • Henry Newbolt
... thought, I trow, That thou might'st press the strings and I might draw the bow And both would meet in music sweet, Thou and ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... do you? Pray, can you deny that your sitting so quiet at work was owing to its raining heavily all the forenoon, and indeed till dinner-time, so that nothing would have stirred out that could help it, save a duck or a goose? I trow, if it had been a fine day, by noon there would have been aching of the head, throbbing, shaking, and so forth, to make an apology ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... indeed?" cried he. "Then perhaps canst tell me the name of a great loathly lump of a brother wi' freckled face an' a hand like a spade. His eyes were black an' his hair was red an' his voice like the parish bull. I trow that there cannot be two ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle
... fearless bound to the depths profound, She rushes with proud disdain, While pale lips tell the fears that swell, Lest she never should rise again. With a courser's pride she paws the tide, Unbridled by bit I trow, While the churlish sea she dashes with glee In a cataract from her prow. Then a ho and a ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... Hearest thou not how loud the younger child is wailing? Mark'st thou not that though it is the depth of the night, the walls are all plain to see as in the clear dawn? {127} There is some strange thing I trow within the house, there is, ...
— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang
... men's shoes, I trow," muttered Father Segrim, with a sour look at the lads, as he led them through the outer court, where some fine horses were being groomed, and then across a second court surrounded with a beautiful cloister, ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... has let you bear sword after all. How like you the trade? Better than poring over crabbed parchments, I trow. But guess you why we are here to-day? My father says that I must take service with some honourable Knight, and see somewhat of the world. He spoke long of the Lord de Clarenham, because his favour would be well in the county; but at last he has fixed on your brother, ...
— The Lances of Lynwood • Charlotte M. Yonge
... travel far For the finding of a star; 10 Up and down the heavens they go, Men that keep a mighty rout! I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, Little flower!—I'll make a stir Like a ...
— Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. 1 • William Wordsworth
... has achieved that safety for her and our brave companions which her wild folly would have sacrificed. I marvel that Judas, son of Mattathias, a bold man, and deemed a wise one, should have let himself be swayed from his purpose by the idle words of a woman. But I trow," added Abishai with a grim smile, "that a glance from Zarah went further with him than all the pleadings of Hadassah. It is said amongst us, their kinsmen, that these twain shall be made one; but this ...
— Hebrew Heroes - A Tale Founded on Jewish History • AKA A.L.O.E. A.L.O.E., Charlotte Maria Tucker
... lady goes to her fate, there's a laird waiting, I trow, to take her place; and weel will he ...
— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr
... is unbridled and unseemly. I am not worthy to be likened to that holy man of old, for whose sake the Lord well nigh saved Sodom, nor am I placed in so sore a strait. You spoke of nothing worse than kissing. The girl will not be the worse, I trow, for a buss or two. Women are not so mighty tender. So long as girls like not the kissing, be sure t'will do them no harm, eh, Desire?" and he pinched ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... one of those sudden rhetorical triumphs that are best left alone. "I trow not," said Belinda, giving the ...
— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells
... here awhile. (To audience, pointing to Palaestrio.) Look yonder, please, how he stands with serried brow in anxious contemplation. His fingers smite his breast; I trow, he fain would summon forth his heart. Presto, change! His left hand he rests upon his left thigh. With the fingers of his right he reckons out his scheme. Ha! He whacks his right ...
— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • Wilton Wallace Blancke
... bring war upon him, their battle-anger should depart when once the bliss of the Glittering Plain had entered into their souls, and they would ask for nought but leave to abide here and be happy. Yet I trow that if he had foemen he could crush them as easily as I set ...
— The Story of the Glittering Plain - or the Land of Living Men • William Morris
... for a stocking, And here is a foot for a shoe, And he has a kiss for his daddy, And two for his mammy, I trow. ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various
... have none of Ambrose or John, Though sage penitauncers I trow they be; Shrive me may none save the Abbot alone— Now listen, Lord Abbot, ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner
... fearful of getting into trouble whatever he did, sent up an envoy to ask Monsieur. I was frightened then. I had uttered my speech in sheer bravado, and was very doubtful as to how he would answer my impudence. But he was utterly careless, I trow, what I did, for presently the word came down ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... for that we shall find beyond the grave. Here below! By my soul, I myself grew grey waiting in vain for one who long years ago gave me this ring. Others had better luck; yet if the priest had wed us, would that have made an end of Patience? I trow not! It might have been for weal or it might have been for woe. A wife may go to mass every day in the month. But is that an end of Patience? Will the storks bring her a babe or no? Will it be a boy or a maid? And if the little one should come, after the wife ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... o'er the dead, "Go to, Arcadians, hear and let Evander know, I send back Pallas, handled as was due. If aught of honour can a tomb bestow, If earth's cold lap yield solace to his woe, I grant it. Dearly will his Dardan guest Cost him, I trow." Then, trampling on the foe, His left foot on the lifeless corpse he pressed, And tore the ponderous belt in triumph from ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... the lovers? you ask, I trow. She told him all ere the sun was low— Why she fled from the Feast to a safe retreat. She laid her heart at her lover's feet, And her words were tears and her lips were slow. As she sadly related the bitter tale His face was aflame and anon grew pale, And his dark eyes flashed with a brave ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... "That man, I trow, is doubly blest, Who of the worst can make the best; And he, I'm sure, is doubly curst, Who of the best ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson
... to set you against me, the spiteful old make-bate, and no one knows how long she will be here, falling on the poor lads if they do but sing a song in the hall after supper, as if she were a very Muggletonian herself. I trow she ...
— Under the Storm - Steadfast's Charge • Charlotte M. Yonge
... her bosom whereon lay Viridis' smock; and thereat she shrank aback somewhat, but said: Sir, it is sooth that the smock is for thee when thou hast answered me a question or two. Meanwhile I pray thee forbear a little; for, as I trow, all is well, and thou shalt see my ...
— The Water of the Wondrous Isles • William Morris
... make our boast of the indomitable courage, the many self-denials, the homely virtues of our forefathers, think you that we in America are degenerate sons of noble sires? I trow not! [Renewed applause.] ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... the children, older and wiser now, With furrows of care on either brow, Have not forgotten the lesson, I trow— ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
... and some flew west, And some flew north away; And others flew to the valleys deep, Where still, I trow, ...
— Ellen of Villenskov - and Other Ballads • Anonymous
... aloes'[FN35] self confess that I, indeed, Can 'gainst a bitt'rer thing abide than even it can show. There is no bitt'rer thing; and yet if patience play me false, It were to me a bitt'rer thing than all the rest, I trow. The wrinkles graven on my heart would speak my hidden pain If through my breast the thought could pierce and read what lies below. Were but my load on mountains laid, they'd crumble into dust; On fire it would be ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume I • Anonymous
... a courtly bow, "Be true to thy lover and maiden vow, For virtue like thine is but rare, I trow, And farewell to my dream of love, and thee, Farewell to ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... it equally clear that the Proposition "If there were any x, some of them would be y" may be legitimately converted into "If there were any y, some of them would be x"? I trow not. ...
— Symbolic Logic • Lewis Carroll
... he com, and seyde, 'How stont it now This mery morwe, nece, how can ye fare?' Criseyde answerde, 'Never the bet for yow, Fox that ye been, god yeve youre herte care! 1565 God help me so, ye caused al this fare, Trow I,' quod she, 'for alle your wordes whyte; O! Who-so seeth yow ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... Coetch, a frigate, containing silks and hides, and some sugar, her mariners being Japanese with some Portuguese, a part of whom were friars. Captain Adams, the admiral of the united fleet, arrived in the same place about three hours after me in the Moon, as likewise William Johnson in the Trow. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr
... fall, And if ye would call my love to me I know she would answer all." — "All that ye did in love forbid it shall be written fair, But now ye wait at Hell-Mouth Gate and not in Berkeley Square: Though we whistled your love from her bed to-night, I trow she would not run, For the sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one!" The Wind that blows between the worlds, it cut him like a knife, And Tomlinson took up the tale and spoke of his sin in life: — "Once ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling
... that day I trow With Sir John Hinrome of Schipsydehouse, For cause we were not men enow He counted us ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen
... health good. Marry, for drink, he shall have plenty of cold water to cool his hot liver, which I will be bound is still hissing with the strong liquors of yesterday. And as for bedding, there are the fine dry board—more wholesome than the wet straw I lay upon when I was in the stocks, I trow." ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... on foot, I trow, Or in albarcas goes he now; Albarcas made of slain wolf hide, In blood of cow or heifer dyed. O snow-white pointed shoes wore he, Green stockings gartered at the knee; Button composed of burning glass, Presented, mind ye, by ...
— Alf the Freebooter - Little Danneved and Swayne Trost and other Ballads • Thomas J. Wise
... sit down on ze chair, he go vay fall on ze floor; and ven Jeem and Fred hear him, zey run out, and ven zey see him dare on ze floor, zey laugh; and my fader say dot he vill kill zem, and he vill trow ze chair at zem, but too quick zey run avay; and all ze time my moder ce cry and ce cry, and ce not eat ze dinner, and ce make my fader go lay ...
— Stories of Childhood • Various
... god knows the best way how To carry a mask when the feet are clay; So I too shall laugh at the merry play, For down in his heart there's a knife, I trow, Though they say Jove laughs at the ...
— The Rose-Jar • Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones
... hope of this world's bliss, How shall men trow in thee? My Grove of Gems is gone away For mine eyes no more to see! O well were I from the ...
— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris |
