"Allude" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... caustic reply, and then paid no further attention until her keen ear caught the sound of Stephen's name. It was a part of her unhappiness that since her broken engagement no one would ever allude to him, and she longed to hear him mentioned, so that perchance she could get ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... the fifteenth century, Antonio Cornezano wrote a hundred different sonnets on one subject, "the eyes of his mistress!" to which possibly Shakspeare may allude, when Jaques ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... my word!" said the stranger. "Now I will allude to the little matter of business—and then you can introduce me ...
— Five Hundred Dollars - or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret • Horatio Alger
... test-papers are to be cut into narrow strips, and preserved in closely stopped vials. The especial employment of the test-papers we shall allude to in ...
— A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe • Anonymous
... oscillates between an obliquity and a loss of vision. The Spanish word "tuerto" means, ordinarily, "blind of one eye." And there is an answer which M. Mignet probably considers apocryphal, as he does not allude to it, said to have been made by Perez to Henry IV. of France, who expressed surprise that he should be so much the slave of a woman that had but one eye. "Sire," replied the ingeniously gallant Perez, "she set the world on ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
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