"Timely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... now triumphant, wasted Sweden. But Asmund's son, named Uffe, shrinking from a conflict, transported his army into Denmark, thinking it better to assail the house of his enemy than to guard his own, and deeming it a timely method of repelling his wrongs to retaliate upon his foe what he was suffering at his hands. Thus the Danes had to return and defend their own, preferring the safety of their land to lordship of a foreign realm; and Uffe went ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... and the storm,—he knew that his father's arms were about him, and he feared no more. In the hour of greatest need the father had come. There, in that hour of brave effort, he was spared a long exposure to the wintry blast. A carriage laden with food, fuel, and timely gifts, for each, was already on the road, and would soon deposit its bounties at the door of those whose faith had ...
— Allegories of Life • Mrs. J. S. Adams
... industrial education are, none appeal more powerfully to the Christian heart than those mentioned, and that the death-rate to which we have alluded indicates that human pity, as well as Christianity, renders such work not only timely ...
— The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885 • Various
... halted, with a handful of companions, under the pear-trees indicated beforehand as a rallying-point, when he was descried and attacked by three bands of Walloon horse that had not yet engaged in the fight. Only his own valor and the timely arrival of some of his troops saved the imprudent monarch from death ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... no further to-day was due to a timely interruption—nothing less, in fact, than a snort of an intensity too ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
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