"Promiser" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the effect that in most cases an action for breach of promise of marriage does not survive against the representatives of the promiser. ...
— Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics - Second Series • James Williams
... time taken a grasshopper into his hand, and, holding the tip of his finger against the insect's mouth, has promised the creature its freedom on condition that it disclosed its reprehensible habit of chewing tobacco. The grasshopper surely complied, and I trust the promiser was as good as his word. The grasshopper's head is so placed that, while it is at the front of its body, the mouth is directly on the under side of its head, while the eyes are at the top of the front ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker
... hazard of the storm. To him therefore must our recourse be daily, by new and fresh acts of faith in and through him and his influences, communicated according to the tenor of the covenant of grace, through faith eyeing the promiser, the promise, with the price purchasing, and so drawing and sucking light, direction, strength, stability, and what our present exigent calleth for, must we think to stand. And happy they who, conscious to themselves ...
— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray)
... heaviest dews that ever fell: my wig and my linen dripping with the hoar frost dissolving on them!—Day but just breaking—Sun not risen to exhale—May it never rise again!—Unless it bring healing and comfort to a benighted soul! In proportion to the joy you had inspired (ever lovely promiser!) in ...
— Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson |
