"Ret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her ways, isn't hoo?" put in old Jack. "Ah, hoo's reg'lar cut out for a single life, Marg'ret is. I reckon nobody'll want to coort her at this time o' day, an' if onybody did, hoo'd ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... Sorban, Colonel, H.I.M.O.G., Ret., sipped gently at his drink and looked mildly at the sheaf of newsfacsimile that he'd just bought fresh from the reproducer in the lobby of the Royal Hotel. Sorban did not look like a man of action; ...
— The Unnecessary Man • Gordon Randall Garrett
... The tender flow'ret blooms apace, But chilling winds blow o'er; It fades unheeded, and its place Shall never ...
— London Lyrics • Frederick Locker
... from the advice of the official review panel, which, under the chairmanship of Alfred Goldberg, historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense, included Martin Blumenson; General J. Lawton Collins (USA Ret.); Lt. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (USAF Ret.); Roy K. Davenport, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army; Stanley L. Falk, chief historian of the Air Force; Vice Adm. E. B. Hooper, Chief of Naval History; Professor Benjamin Quarles; Paul J. Scheips, historian, Center ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.
... Lady Marg'ret," he said, "And hold my steed in your hand, Until that against your seven brothers bold, And your father, I mak ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various
... delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi [Fr.], style. Venus, Aphrodite^, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo^, Hyperion, Adonis^, Antionous^, Narcissus. peacock, butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel &c (ornament) 847; work of art. flower, flow'ret gay^; [flowers: list] wildflower; rose, lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... "The flow'ret was mine own, mine own, But I have lost its fragrance rare, And knightly name and freedom fair, ...
— Sintram and His Companions • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque
... mark the flow'ret's eye, To rest where pebbles form my bed, Where shapes and colours scatter'd lie In varying millions round my head. The soul rejoices when alone, And feels her glorious empire free; Sees GOD in every shining stone, And ...
— Wild Flowers - Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry • Robert Bloomfield
... remind me of those tranquil days, When me thy home a safe asylum gave; With fond solicitude thy noble sire The half-nipp'd, tender flow'ret gently rear'd; While thou, a friend and playmate always gay, Like to a light and brilliant butterfly Around a dusky flower, didst around me Still with new life thy merry gambols play, And breathe thy joyous spirit in my soul, Until, my cares ...
— Iphigenia in Tauris • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... homme, allez dans le maquis de Porto-Vecchio, et vous y vivrez en sret, avec un bon fusil, de la poudre et des balles; n'oubliez pas un manteau brun garni d'un capuchon, qui sert de couverture et de matelas. Les bergers vous donnent du lait, du fromage et des chtaignes, et vous n'aurez rien craindre de la justice ou des parents ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... The sweet expression of her pensive face, The light'ning smile, the animated grace— The portrait well the lover's voice supplies; Speaks all his heart must feel, his tongue would say: Yet ah! not all his heart must sadly feel! How oft the flow'ret's silken leaves conceal The drug that steals the vital spark away! And who that gazes on that angel-smile, Would fear its charm, ...
— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe
... in thy beauty;—wilt thou form a garland Round the fair brow of some beloved maiden? Pure though she be, unhallowed temple never, Flow'ret! shall wear thee. ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
... Grandpapa was saying, as the young people had left them, and the others had wandered off to enjoy the quiet, shady paths, "this place was the old Fret de Rouvray. It wasn't a very pretty place to come to in those days, what with the robbers and other bad people who infested it. And now let us go and find a seat, child, and I'll show you one or two little pictures I picked up in the shop this morning; and you can ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney
... before us was sprinkled with wild flowers, including the yellow furze, (I have beside me, while writing this, a bunch of the same, of English growth;) and the ret'm, or juniper, seven or eight feet in height, covered with white blossom, the fragrance of which resembled, or, if possible, was an improvement upon, the smell of a ...
— Byeways in Palestine • James Finn
... an empty hand, One common sentence on their heads would fall, 'Twas Oakly banquet had bewitch'd them all. Loud roar'd the winds of March, with whirling snow, One brightening hour an April breeze would blow; Now hail, now hoar-frost bent the flow'ret's head, Now struggling beams their languid influence shed, That scarce a cowering bird yet dared to sing 'Midst the wild changes of our island spring. Yet, shall the Italian goatherd boasting cry, "Poor Albion! when hadst thou so clear a sky!" And deem that nature smiles ...
— May Day With The Muses • Robert Bloomfield
... gathering up the reins. "Oh, come out of it, Marg'ret! He doesn't pay me anything. Don't you make Mother stop me, either, will you?" ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris
... Pilots in vain repeat their compass o'er, Until of him they learn that one point more The constant magnet to the pole doth hold, Steel to the magnet, Coventry to gold. Muscovy sells us pitch, and hemp, and tar; Iron and copper, Sweden; Munster, war; Ashley, prize; Warwick, custom; Cart'ret, pay; But Coventry doth sell the ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk, Poor faded flow'ret! on his careless way; Inhal'd awhile thy odours on his walk, Then onward pass'd and left thee to decay. Ah! melancholy emblem! had I seen 5 Thy modest beauties dew'd with Evening's gem, I had not rudely cropp'd thy parent stem, But left thee, blushing, 'mid ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... Freude stret, Seid Ihr, Frau, allein. Ihr nur habt mich ja betret, 35 So erbarmt Euch mein. Wie steht Euch der Mut? Wollt Ihr mir zu allen Tagen Eure Gnade ganz versagen, So seid ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... some delicious spring Remurmurs to the leaves that play Mid palm and date and flow'ret gay, ...
— The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems • Washington Allston
... thank ye, Marg'ret; And aye I thank ye heartilie; Gin ever the dead come for the quick, Be sure, Mag'ret, I'll come ...
— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang
... Dalvennan was served heir to his grandfather on the 19th of March, 1672 (Inq. Ret. Ab. Ayr, 580). And the Retour of his heritable property, at the date of his forfeiture, specifies, as having belonged to him, the ten mark land of the ten pound land of Keires, comprehending the lands of Dalvennan, Yondertoun and Burntoun, Daluy, Milntown, ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... said in a tone of mild complaint, partly to the young men and partly to his old master in the ruffles and velvet over the piano, "Marse Nat, you reckon I ain' got no better manners 'n to teck you bes' coat and weskit! Dis heah coat and weskit nuver did you no favor anyways—I hear Miss Marg'ret talkin' 'bout it de fust time you ever put 'em on. Dat's de reason I tuck 'em." Having found an excuse he was as voluble as a river—"I say to myself, I ain' gwine let my young marster wyar dem things no mo' roun' heah wid strange ladies an' gent'man stayin' in de ...
— "George Washington's" Last Duel - 1891 • Thomas Nelson Page
... its rightful location. This patriotic restoration of the doorway by the Alexandria Association has been made possible by the past president and Honorary President of the Association, Colonel Charles B. Moore, U.S.A., Ret.] ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
... th' dragons—that's our Ank'ret," said Dan in the same half-frightened whisper. "If you mun face Her, you'd best do it while Ank'ret's next door: both on 'em's too much for any man. Th' Angel Gabriel couldn't match the pair on 'em: leastwise, ...
— Our Little Lady - Six Hundred Years Ago • Emily Sarah Holt
... Retina (ret'in-ah). The delicate innermost tunic and perceptive structure of the eye, formed by the expansion of the optic nerve and covering the back part of the eye as ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... saw where in the shroud did lurk A curious frame of Nature's work; A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying: So soon to exchange the imprisoning womb For darker closets of the tomb! She did but ope an eye, and put A clear beam forth, then straight up shut For the long ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... Studies, The Brookings Institution George Packer—The New Yorker Carlos Pascual—Vice President and Director, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution Robert Perito—Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace *Col. Jack Petri, USA (Ret.)—advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior Kenneth Pollack—Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution Thomas Ricks—The Washington Post Zainab Salbi—Founder and CEO, Women for Women International Matt Sherman—former Deputy Senior Advisor ...
— The Iraq Study Group Report • United States Institute for Peace
... Forklaringen derp har vi til dels i den ldre sagnform: broderkampen er opstet af den gamle folkekamp, hvor Had-Barderne l, under for Danerne; men tillige m der vre bristet en episk sammenknytning. I nste slgtled af Skjoldungtten er det et ret gammelt sagnmotiv, at Hrrik overfalder og flder Hroar; ban har sikkert vret opfattet som Frodes sn og hvner, ikke blot i norsk men ogs ...
— The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf • Oscar Ludvig Olson
... Arthos, who first introduced me to the beauty of minor epic, the late Professor Hereward T. Price, and Professor Warner G. Rice, all from the University of Michigan; Professor Helen C. White of the University of Wisconsin; librarians Major Felie Clark, Ret., U. S. Army, of Gainesville, Florida, and Professor Luella Eutsler of Wittenberg University; and Dr. Katharine F. Pantzer of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, editor of the ...
— Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) • Dunstan Gale
... is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... will Henry ne're presume: Therefore my Lord Protector, giue consent, That Marg'ret may be Englands ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... and caste adoun the heed, And she bigan to breste a-wepe anoon, And seyde, 'Allas, for wo! Why nere I deed? For of this world the feith is al agoon! 410 Allas! What sholden straunge to me doon, Whan he, that for my beste freend I wende, Ret me to love, and sholde it ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... receedes from the head becomes of a dark brown. the field of the back and sides is black. a narrow stripe of a light yellow runs along the center of the back, on each side of this stripe there is a range of small transverse oblong spots of a pale brick ret which gradually deminish as they receede from the head and disappear at the commencement of the tail. the puple of the eye is black, with a narrow ring of white bordering it's edge; the ballance of ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... wood, Marg'ret, You're welcome here to me; A fairer bower than e'er you saw. I'll ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... Tartarin. The gallant Commandant Bravida (Quartermaster. Ret) said of him "He's a stout fellow," and one may suppose that having kitted out so many stout fellows in his time, he knew what ...
— Tartarin de Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... their land, so them did re-baptize; Though herring for their God few voices missed, And Poor-John to have been the Evangelist. Faith, that could never twins conceive before, Never so fertile, spawned upon this shore More pregnant than their Marg'ret, that laid down For Hands-in-Kelder of a whole Hans-Town. Sure, when religion did itself embark, And from the east would westward steer its ark, It struck, and splitting on this unknown ground, Each one thence pillaged the first piece he found: Hence Amsterdam, Turk, Christian, ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... bind the bloom, Of Marjoram flow'ret scented sweet; Take flamey veil: glad hither come Come hither borne by snow-hue'd feet Wearing ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... don't 'appen to ha' been robbing your rich uncle and now on your way to London wi' the family jew-ells to make your fortun', having set fire to the fam-ly mansion to cover the traces o' your dark an' desp'ret doin's?" ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... others. They were carefully revised before they were sent to the press. All the purely personal passages were omitted and others added to hide the identity of the persons concerned. Letters of the sort to religious ladies were common at this time. Frret's were preventive, Holbach's curative, but appear to be rather strong dose for a dvote. Other examples are Voltaire's Eptre Uranie and Diderot's Entretien d'un Philosophe avec la ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... proud and the wealthy To Phemie are bowing; No looks of love win they With sighing or suing; Far away maun I stand With my rude wooing, She's a flow'ret too lovely ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland • Anonymous
... roam'd the braes o' bonnie Doon, The winding banks o' Ayr, Where flutters many a small bird gay, Blooms many a flow'ret fair. But dearer far to me the stem That once was Calder's pride, And blossoms now the fairest flower Within ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... bet that New York ain't lookin' for no champeen ropers or bronco-busters," said Stace. "Now if Clay was a cabby-ret dancer or a ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo[obs3], Hyperion, Adonis[obs3], Antionous[obs3], Narcissus. peacock, butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel &c. (ornament) 847; work of art. flower, flow'ret gay[obs3], wildflower; rose[flowers: list], lily, anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley, ranunculus[ISA:herb@flowering], rhododendron, windflower. pleasurableness ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid Low i' ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson
... man named Dhuju, and he had sons named Ret Mongla, Saru Sama and Chapat champa; and their wives were ...
— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas
... dux clrissimus et multis mihi beneficiis carus, rogitantibus Arvernis ut populi Romani miesttem ostentret suque simul imperi monumentum eis relinqueret, MRUM latercium, vginti pedes ltum, sexginta altitdine et ita in immensum porrectum ut vix tuis ipse oculis crderes tantum esse, ndum aliis persuderes, non sine adverso suo rmore ut qui ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... va [^e]tre expliqu['e] dans la Pr['e]face, je dirai, d['e]finissant ce dictionnaire, qu'il embrasse et combine l'usage pr['e]sent de la langue et son usage pass['e], afin de donner ['a] l'usage pr['e]sent toute la pl['e]nitude et la s[^u]ret['e] qu'il comporte.' ...
— Society for Pure English Tract 4 - The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin • John Sargeaunt
... she announced presently. "But Tochatti gets awful cross sometimes. She used to be fearful angry with Nurse Marg'ret. Where's Nurse Marg'ret ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... round har; but op in Cart'ret, whar I cum from, heaps on 'em do, though the' darn't ...
— Among the Pines - or, South in Secession Time • James R. Gilmore
... pleasant little town, As everywhere, a noiseless scythe hath swept; The bright, the green, the flow'ret all cut down, For heart ties ...
— Verses and Rhymes by the way • Nora Pembroke
... Mr. Bragg, scrutinizing our friend attentively, 'was as likely a man, sir, as ever I see'd, sir, to make an 'untsman, for he had a deal of ret (rat) ketchin' cunnin' about him, and, as I said before, didn't care one dim for his neck, but a more signal disastrous failure was never recognized. It was quite ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... rare, Fond Nature kept whispering a wish thou could'st share: No air softly swelling, no chord struck with glee, But awoke in the bosom remembrance of thee. Even now, as the cold winds adown the leaves bring, We sigh that our flow'ret was ...
— Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 475 - Vol. XVII, No. 475. Saturday, February 5, 1831 • Various |
