"Human being" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one singular habitant of these ruins," said the student,—"a solitary painter, who has dwelt here some twenty years, companioned only by his Art. No other apartment but that which he tenants is occupied by a human being." ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... at first believe that what I beheld was a human being. Stretched out on the damp soil of the den lay a miserable, shrunken object, a thing like a skeleton wrapped in parchment, with the faint outlines of a man. On our entrance it moved ...
— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward
... life! Why, you are out of the universe completely. I say," he added, "come along with me this evening. I will initiate you a little. You know you must learn your profession as a human being." ...
— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell
... telling him that she had now stuck by him for a long time yet no one appeared ready to take her into his house; and if she should be barred out much longer she should take up her abode with some one else. During those very days also boats full of weapons and under the guidance of no human being came to anchor off the coast of Spain. And a mule brought forth young, an occurrence which had been previously interpreted as destined to portend the possession of authority by him. Again, a boy that was bringing him incense in the course of a sacrifice suddenly had his hair turn gray; whereupon ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) • Cassius Dio
... nor kind," said I, "but, of course, I'll do anything to help, if only I'm treated like a rational, grown-up human being." ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
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