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Ren  n.  A run. (Obs.)






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"Ren" Quotes from Famous Books



... one desired—as one seldom did—a mouthful of fresh air. Robin Turgis knew them all, admired them all, feared them all, and yet he held head against them because his Beaune wine was so adorable, and because he could keep his own counsel. Slender Ren de Montigny, in a jerkin of rubbed and faded purple velvet, with his malign, Italianate face and his delicate Italianate grace; rotund Guy Tabarie, bluff, red and bald; Casin Cholet, tall and bird-like, with the figure ...
— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... Drang in tausend Herzen ein. Pause: Zwingel kam Und Calvin, Traten auf in Christi Sinn; Duetto: Und verbreiten Licht und Heil Segensvoll in ihrem Teil. Ganzer Chor: Millionen feiern heut', Dankbar froh' im hoeh'ren Ton, Dieses ...
— American Lutheranism - Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod • Friedrich Bente

... 'a shining, luminous, intangible shape of the body.'... Then, again, there was the 'Sekhem', or 'power' of a man, his strength or vital force personified. These were the 'Khaibit', or 'shadow', the 'Ren', or 'name', the 'Khat', or 'physical body', and 'Ab', the 'heart', in which life was seated, went to the full ...
— The Jewel of Seven Stars • Bram Stoker

... it—in this lonely spot, Retreat and calm, a noble fair one sought; Far from the tumult of contending arms, A solitary castle hid her charms, 160 Her tender form from all mankind conceal'd, While war detain'd her father in the field. But while his sov'reign's toil the vet'ren shar'd, His lovely child the fost'ring graces rear'd. D'Etree (that name the favour'd mortal bore), 165 Of ev'ry, charm exhausted Nature's store. Not on Eurota's bank, so beauteous shone The faithless partner of the Spartan throne; Not she who conquer'd, whom the world ...
— The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad • Virgil and Voltaire

... hous'n. De young missus am dar, wid de pore chile, an' a little chile dat look jess like she do; an' dar'm anoder bery little chile dar, too. Dey'm upstars in a room, wid a bed an' a candle burnin'. Dey'm gwine to bed. Young missus kneel down wid de two chil'ren, an' pray. An' side de pore chile, an' kneelin' down wid har arm roun' him neck, am de buckra angel. She pray, too. Swanga gemman in anoder room yere dem aprayin', an' he come an' look. He say nuffin', but he stan' dar, an' de big tear run down him cheek. De time come back ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... encompassed with crowns, their heels With fine wings garlanded, shall tread the stars Beneath their feet, heaven's pavement, far removed From damned spirits, and the torturing cries Of men, his breth'ren, fashioned of the earth, As he was, nourish'd with the self-same bread, Belike his kindred or companions once— Through everlasting ages now divorced, In chains and savage torments to repent Short years of folly on earth. Their groans unheard In heav'n, ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb

... commandment, "Thou shalt have no 19:30 other gods before me," which may be ren- dered: Thou shalt have no belief of Life as mortal; thou shalt not know evil, for there is one Life,- 20:1 even God, good. He rendered "unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are 20:3 God's." He at last paid no homage to forms ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... o'clock strike, an' de chil'ren is sleepy, Mese'f an' ole woman can't stay up no more So alone by de fire—'cos dey say dey ain't tire— We lef' Philomene an' de ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond

... Hindustan (hin doo staen') Hohenzollern (ho en tsol'ern) Holstein (hol'stin) Illyrians (i lyr'i ans) Istria (is'tri a) Janina (ya ni'na) Janus (ja'nus) Jonescu (jo nes'koo) Jutes (juts) Kaiser (ki'zer) Kaspar (kas'paer) Kavala (ka vae' la) Kerensky (ke ren'ski) Khartoom (kaer toom') Korea (ko re'a) Korniloff (kor ni'loff) Koumanova (koo mae'no va) Lamar (la maer') Leon (le'on) Liege (li ezh') Lithuania (lith oo a'nia) Longwy (long'vy) Lorraine (lor ran') Macedonia (ma se do'ni a) Magyar (mod'yaer) Manchuria (man chu'ri ...
— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet

... d'espeli; et ren per lour douna! Ah, pecaire!" "Look, sir! The frost has come and we've nothing to give them! ...
— More Hunting Wasps • J. Henri Fabre

... fellow-critters, I don't blame ye so much for; dat is natur, and can't be helped; but to gobern dat wicked natur, dat is de pint. You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned. Now, look here, bred'ren, just try wonst to be cibil, a helping yourselbs from dat whale. Don't be tearin' de blubber out your neighbour's mout, I say. Is not one shark dood right as toder to dat whale? And, by Gor, none on you has de right to dat whale; dat whale belong ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville

... woul'n' think till they tell you; but then you'd see it—black! But that li'l' girl of seven year', nobody coul'n' see that even avter told. Some people said: 'Tha'z biccause she's so young; when she's grow' up you'll see. And some say, 'When she get chil'ren they'll show it, those chil'ren—an' ...
— The Flower of the Chapdelaines • George W. Cable

... mounte sian Uno auro superbo Que vou faire ren qu'un tian De touti lis erbo: Nautri, li bon Prouvencau Aparan lou viei casau Ounte fan l'aleto ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer

... time a new ch'en-tai (brigadier-general) had arrived from the capital, having been sent as a man who could handle the situation successfully. He was a Liu Ta Ren, who had previously held office in the city, and whose cunning a Scotland ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle

... atom ed'it din'gy glo'ry ash'es lev'el diz'zy lo'cust cap'tor meth'od fin'ish mo'ment car'rot splen'did gim'let po'tent cav'il ves'per spir'it co'gent ehap'ter west'ern tim'id do'tage chat'tel bed'lam pig'gin no'ted fath'om des'pot tin'sel stor'age gal'lon ren'der tip'pet ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey

... monotonous nasal drone of the plain chant was faintly heard in the distance. So soon as this was over, the lay clerk sat himself down by the hanging drum, and, to its accompaniment, began intoning the prayer, "Na Mu Miyo Ho Ren Go Kiyo," the congregation fervently joining in unison with him. These words, repeated over and over again, are the distinctive prayer of the Buddhist sect of Nichiren, to which the temple Cho-o-ji is dedicated. They are approximations to Sanscrit sounds, and have no meaning in Japanese, nor do ...
— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

... ageaen your leaves an' flow'rs, Lwonesome woodlands! zunny woodlands! Here underneath the dewy show'rs O' warm-air'd spring-time, zunny woodlands! As when, in drong or open ground, Wi' happy bwoyish heart I vound The twitt'ren birds a-builden round Your ...
— Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect • William Barnes

... Inclusion occurs in the case of "ren" and "Hen." The name William belonged to no other ...
— Assimilative Memory - or, How to Attend and Never Forget • Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)

... have I none; They take my beasts, and done them slon, And payen but a stick of tree ... They take geese, capons, and hen And all that ever they may with ren And reaves us our catell.... They took my hens and my geese And my sheep with all the fleece And ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell

... Oregon, not many months ago, I had some very interesting conversations with Mr. U'Ren, who is the father of what is called the Oregon System, a system by which he has put bosses out of business. He is a member of a group of public-spirited men who, whenever they cannot get what they want through the legislature, draw up a ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson

... Alfred, King; life and times; works All for Love Alysoun, or Alisoun (ael'[)y]-sown or ael'[)y]-zoon), old form of Alice Amelia American Taxation, Burke's speech on An Epistle Anatomy of Melancholy Ancren Riwle (angk'ren rol) Andrea del Sarto (aen-dr[a]'yae del saer't[o]) Andreas Angeln Angles, the Anglo-Norman Period; literature; ballads; lyrics; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions on; chronology Anglo-Saxon ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... kill'd, or trophy won; Rather than thus be overtopt, Would you not wish his laurels cropt? Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies rackt with pain, and you without: How patiently you hear him groan! How glad the case is not your own! What poet would not grieve to see His breth'ren write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in hell. Her end when Emulation misses, She turns to Envy, stings and hisses: The strongest friendship yields to pride, Unless the odds be on our side. Vain human kind! fantastic race! ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

... Wo immer Deine lichte Wohnung sey, Zum hoeh'ren Schaffen bist Du neugeboren, Und singest dort die voll're Litanei. Von jenem Streben das Du auserkoren, Vom reinsten Aether, drin Du athmest frei, O neige Dich zu gnaedigem Erwiedern Des letzten Wiederhalls ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... mill, when his wrist war sprained, without a cent o' pay; an' took the blame when 'Dolphus war faulted by his dad fur lamin' the horse-critter; an' stood back an' let Pete git the meat whenst we-uns shot fur beef, bein' he hev got a wife an' chil'ren ter feed. All leetle favors, but ...
— His Unquiet Ghost - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

... should never acquire. They did not think that any practice would enable them to gabble, as everybody seemed able to gabble here. Hugh had witnessed something of it before,—Phil having been wont to run off at home, "Sal, Sol, Ren et Splen," to the end of the passage, for the admiration of his sisters, and so much to little Harry's amusement, that Susan, however busy she might be, came to listen, and then asked him to say it again, that cook might hear what he learned at school. Hugh now thought that none of them ...
— The Crofton Boys • Harriet Martineau



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