"Surviving" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... therefore not a little surprised when he found how great an influence it had upon his grand-uncle, who had never mentioned it to him before; indeed it had escaped Alexander's memory that it was his grand-uncle's only surviving daughter who had been lost ...
— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat
... breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and ...
— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron
... as my serener soul Did these unhappy shores patrol, And wait with an attentive ear The coming of the gondolier, Your fire-surviving roll I took, Your spirited and happy book; (1) Whereon, despite my frowning fate, It did my soul so recreate That all my fancies fled away On a ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the brave Yuyutsu, Kuru's last surviving chief, Spake to faithful Indrasena, and to ...
— Maha-bharata - The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse • Anonymous
... chariot was bound to go through Winchester, she spoke of a brother, a baker there, the last surviving member of her family and, after some talk, Weyburn offered to deliver a message of health and greeting at the baker's shop. There was a waving of hands, much nodding and curtseying, as the postillion resumed his demi-volts—all to the stupefaction of Mrs. Pagnell; but she dared not ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
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