"Practise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the ladies Calista and Evelina never for a moment relaxed their efforts, or ceased to practise their arts, upon the wealthy ...
— Lewie - Or, The Bended Twig • Cousin Cicely
... Carthusian. 'I said I will take heed to my ways that I trespass not with my tongue,' replied the saintly father. 'Say no more for the present,' interrupted the youthful beginner; 'I will go home and practise that, and will come again when ...
— Bunyan Characters - First Series • Alexander Whyte
... back country and study law and sober down. There was a Mr. Braiden in the ordinary who staked me two hundred dollars at rattle-and-snap against my horse. Gad, sir, that was providence. I won. I left Charlestown with honor, I studied law at Salisbury in North Carolina, and I have come here to practise it." ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... with more subtlety than I had expected from the brute. "I had not meant to prove ungrateful. I am but newly come to my own here in the Wolfmark. I have learned from your host, Bishop Peter, how precious a thing forgiveness is. And now I am resolved to practise it. There is a time to love and a time to hate; a time to war and a time to be at peace. This is the last news I had from the holy clerk whose revenues I pay. So lay it to heart, as ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... and so of other. Which is to signifie Rote Square, Rote Cubik: and so forth:) & propre and peculier fashions in the fiue principall partes: Wherfore the practiser, estemeth this, a diuerse Arithmetike from the other. Practise bryngeth in, here, diuerse compoundyng of Numbers: as some tyme, two, three, foure (or more) Radicall numbers, diuersly knit, by signes, of More & Lesse: as thus [2rt]12 [3rt]15. Or thus [4rt]19 [3rt]12 ...
— The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara • John Dee
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