"Speech" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... continuously skirting the coast, (until) we had sight of another tribe distant perhaps some 80 leagues from the former tribe: and we found them very different in speech and customs: we resolved to cast anchor, and went ashore with the boats, and we saw on the beach a great number of people amounting probably to 4,000 souls: and when we had reached the shore, they did not stay for us, but betook themselves to flight through the forests, abandoning their things: ...
— Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. - Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 • Various
... "The Old Lancaster Day-Book." It is, perhaps, worthy of note that Mr. Rink was, in fact, a man of rather more thought and general information than one might suppose, if judging him merely by his uncouth grammar, and the clipped coin of his jangling speech:— ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various
... But oh, what form of language can impart The frantic grief that wrung Aciloe's heart, When to the height of hopeless sorrow wrought, The fainting spirit feels a pang of thought, Which never painted in the hues of speech, 145 Lives at the soul, and mocks expression's reach! At length she trembling cried, "the conflict's o'er, "My heart, my breaking heart can bear no more— "Yet spare his feeble age—my vows receive, "And oh, in mercy, bid my father live!"— 150 "Wilt them be mine?" ...
— Poems (1786), Volume I. • Helen Maria Williams
... accord with our knowledge of the negotiation for the purchase of the Maid. They seem to indicate that even then the contract was not complete, or at any rate that the vendor thought he could break it if he chose. But the most remarkable point about the Sire de Luxembourg's speech is the condition on which he says he will ransom the Maid. He asks her to promise never again to fight against England and Burgundy. From these words it would seem to have been his intention to sell her to the King of France or ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... anxious!" The word which Christ uses ((Greek: merimnate)) is a very suggestive one; it describes the state of mind of one who is drawn in different directions, torn by internal conflict, "distracted," as we say, where precisely the same figure of speech occurs. A similar counsel is to be found in another and still more striking word which only Luke has recorded, and which is rendered, "Neither be ye of doubtful mind." There is a picture in the word ((Greek: meteorizesthe)) the picture of a vessel vexed by contrary winds, ...
— The Teaching of Jesus • George Jackson
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