"Period" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... daughter. Now I am going to ask you one question, and as you answer that I will tell you whether or not you can have Ellen for your wife. You look forward, as I say, to many years of life, and you have chosen her as best suited to live that period with you; but I ask you this, and I demand that you answer me truthfully, and that you remember that you are speaking to her father. Imagine that I had the power to tell you, or rather that some superhuman agent could convince you, that you had but a month to live, and that for what you did ...
— Gallegher and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... course of it seemed never to be going to finish assembling the Council of Gods in order to submit thereto the deceived husband's requests. And still no Nana! Was the management keeping Nana for the fall of the curtain then? So long a period of expectancy had ended by annoying the public. Their ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... the introducing every time a final Cadence would be wrong: But if in these two Extremes a Remedy were necessary I should think, that among an hundred broken Cadences, ten of them, briefly terminated on Points that conclude a Period, would not be ill employed. The Learned, however, do not declare themselves upon it, and from their Silence I must ...
— Observations on the Florid Song - or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers • Pier Francesco Tosi
... the Invalids' Hotel. L.C.K., farmer, age 41, married. For a period of nearly ten years, as a result of slight injury, he had suffered from cloudy and unhealthy-looking water, with some burning on passing it; frequent calls to urinate; swelling of the limbs, loss of energy and strength; headache, etc.; gradually there appeared severe ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... the second period in that passage of Lear, the majesty and despair of the old king in voice and gesture. The words were afire with feeling as they came off his tongue, and all ...
— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller
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