"Lode" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wondred Piramids. Whose towring tops do seeme to threat the skie, And make it proud by presence of my loue: 600 Then Paphian Temples and Cytherian hils, And sacred Gnidas bonnet vaile to it, A fayrer saint then Venus there shall dwell. Antho. Led with the lode-starre of her lookes, I go As crazed Bark is toss'd in trobled Seas, Vncertaine ...
— The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge • Anonymous
... old party with the boiled shirt, who has for some days been loafing about the town peddling hymn-books at merely nominal prices (a clear proof that he stole them), has been disposed of in a cheap and satisfactory manner. His lode petered out about six o'clock yesterday afternoon; our evening edition being delayed until that time, by request. The cause of his death, as nearly as could be ascertained by a single physician-Dr. Duffer being too drunk ...
— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile
... admiring comprehension of Oliver? Of course he loved her. Of course he wanted to marry her when this nightmare was over. That went without saying. But why couldn't he look to the glowing future? A poet had called a lover's mistress "the lode-star of his one desire." That to him Peggy ought to be. Lode-star. One desire. The words confused him. He had no lode-star. His one desire was to be left alone. Without doubt he was suffering from some process ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke
... these two stout erles did meet, Like captaines of great might; Like lyons wood they layd on lode, ...
— The Book of Old English Ballads • George Wharton Edwards
... thought much of love. Science had been his mistress; ambition his lode-star. Such feeling as he had acknowledged to had been for men—struggling men, men who were down-trodden and gasping in the narrow bounds of poverty and helplessness. Miss Challoner had roused—well, his pride. He could see that now. The might of this new emotion made plain many things he had passed ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green
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