"Yond" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and worn, I knelt within the night As blind as darkness—Praying? And to Whom?— When yond' cold crescent cut my folded sight, And showed a ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various
... multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply be yond it. But in civilized society, it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than ...
— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith
... amang them greasy chaps 'at smells o' oil, and amang them dyers wi' blue and black skins, that has a long head, and that can tell what a fooil of a law is, as well as ye or old Yorke, and a deal better nor soft uns like Christopher Sykes o' Whinbury, and greet hectoring nowts like yond' Irish ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
... men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. * * * * * Would he were fatter! But I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton
... impotent control, And seek of endless life the eternal scene. 45 At death's vain summons THIS will never die, In Nature's chaos THIS will not decay— These are the bands which closely, warmly, tie Thy soul, O Charlotte, 'yond this chain of clay, To him who thine must be till ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... some outburst of merriment, of which she was the original, was charged upon some innocent mate, and punishment inflicted which she merited. They enjoyed her antics so fully that any of them would suffer wrongfully to keep open the avenues of mirth. She would venture far be- yond ...
— Our Nig • Harriet E. Wilson
... Ha, ha! You might as well have told me, yond' is heaven, This earth, these men, and all had moved alike. — Do not I know the time's condition? Yes, Mitis, and their souls; and who they be That either will or can except against me. None but a sort of fools, so sick in taste, That they contemn all physic of the mind, And like gall'd camels, ...
— Every Man Out Of His Humour • Ben Jonson
... against the wall, and fell into a seat under the window, the light from which streamed upon her fair hair and illumined her as she sat, crushed by her misery into an attitude of profound despair, her head bowed upon her breast, her clasped hands thrust out rigidly be yond her knees. ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar, ...
— The World's Best Poetry — Volume 10 • Various
... said she, "it fair troubles me to go into yond' room now: it looks so lonesome wi' the chair empty and ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte |
