"Fore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... knives, forks, spoons, plates. Before there is time to proceed further, the child, in nine cases out of ten, will say, "The plates look like O." Suppose we next take X, which may be represented by crossing the fore-fingers, or two little sticks. We can now teach the child that these two letters, combined, spell ox. We might then tell him a familiar story about oxen; that we put a yoke on them; that they ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew
... a pains-taking diligence, if not fore-thought—peculiar to all feeble animals, squirrels, sick children, and the like—did he one by one cram, and compel into my pocket, unconscious as I was at the moment of his miser-like proceeding (instinctive, probably), which later I detected, to his ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
... is the little fount Where sparkles the spicy wine? From forth its golden depths Its golden sparkles mount And dance 'fore the gladdened eye. This beautiful little fount Wherein the golden wine Sparkles—who made it, With thoughtful skill and fine, With such high art and industry, That praise deserve so well? This little fount so gay, Wrought with high ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... begged Dot when, supper over, they were gathered about the fireplace in the living room. "Tell us, 'fore Twaddles and I have ...
— Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island • Mabel C. Hawley
... all alone Thinking of divers things fore-known. When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet. All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy. ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
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