"Feste" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ulysses preferred his old woman to immortality, and this absence has led me to see that he was as wise in that as in other things." Again he writes, "Against all trouble (and I have had my share) I weigh a wife-comrade 'trew and fest' in ...
— Autobiography and Selected Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley
... defence but with their asagaies or iauelings poisoned. [Sidenote: Gago taken.] So they tooke it, and proceeded to the city of Gago, where the Negros were in numbers infinite, and meant to stand to the vttermost for their countrey: but the Moores slew them so fest, that they were fain to yeeld, and do pay tribute by the yere. The rent of Tombuto is 60 quintals of golde by the yeere: the goodnesse whereof you know. What rent Gago will yeeld, you shall know at the Spring, for then Alcaide Hamode commeth ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt
... ich sagen ... Dass zwei Kmpfer allein sich kamen entgegen, Hildebrand und Hadubrand, zwischen zwei Heeren. Sohn und Vater besorgten ihre Rstung, Bereiteten ihr Schlachtkleid, die Schwerter fest sie grteten, 5 Die Recken ber die Ringe;[1] dann ritten sie zum Kampfe. Hildebrand erhob das Wort; er war der hehrere[2] Mann, In der Welt erfahrener. Zu fragen begann er Mit wenigen Worten, wer sein Vater wre Von den Helden im Volke ... ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... we be poore, For the tylthe of oure landys lyys falow as the floore, As ye ken. We ar so hamyd[27], For-taxed[28] and ramyd[29], We ar mayde hand-tamyd, Withe thyse gentlery men. Thus they refe[30] us oure rest, Oure Lady theym wary[31]! These men that ar lord-fest, thay cause the ploghe tary. That men say is for the best we fynde it contrary. Thus ar husbandys opprest, in pointe ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne
... on the state of the Pagans and the Jews, and on the facility with which idolatry crept in on every side, will not be astonished that Moses has not developed a doctrine of which the influence might be more pernicious than useful to his people. Orat. Fest. de Vitae Immort. Spe., &c., auct. Ph. Alb. Stapfer, p. 12 13, 20. Berne, 1787. ——Moses, as well from the intimations scattered in his writings, the passage relating to the translation of Enoch, (Gen. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... Table at two o'clock, price 2s. 6d. each." From the last named item I conclude that the dinner on the table was intended for employers who could afford the 2s. 6d., and also, I believe, for the parish constables of the hundred whose "2s. 6d. for the constabel's fest" so frequently occurs in parish accounts. A number of these announcements before me all end in a similar strain, but I give one ...
— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston
... ein Ruf wie Donnerhall, Wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall; Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein, Wer will die Stroemes Hueter sein? Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein, Fest steht und ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence
... as far as I think ye ken, but maybe no sae far as ye think ye ken. I believe ye, but I confess I dinna believe in ye—yet. What hae ye ever dune to gie a body ony richt to believe in ye? Ye're a guid rider, and a guid shot for a laddie, and ye rin middlin fest—I canna say like a deer, for I reckon I cud lick ye mysel at rinnin! ...
— Heather and Snow • George MacDonald |
