"Drouth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on the affections of the Dakotans by a measure of this kind. But so cumbersome is our present system of republican government, that it would take too long in this case to set governmental aid in motion. So, as it is, the Dakotas are between the devil of drouth and the deep sea of further capitalistic oppression, their only hope of a fair solution lying in the ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 • Various
... I gave, poor fool, A soldier apples and water, So may I die before you cool Your father's drouth, my daughter." ...
— Country Sentiment • Robert Graves
... reason, as I can see, for old Mr. Atterson refusing to let you water your stock here. In time of drouth the branch probably furnished no more water than his own cattle needed. And it will be ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd
... him to work, was about equal to the above loan. Then he must be clothed and fed; his work must be directed; if sick his labor was lost, and he must receive medical and other care; all risks of harvest from drouth or flood must be incurred by the owner, and the slave's term of service was limited by his death, when his purchase cost was lost, and there must be an outlay by a new purchase. One chattel slave could not bring his master such ...
— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott
... and frolic of his full-grown age, Roving the Celtic and Iberian fields, At last betakes him to this ominous wood, And, in thick shelter of black shades imbowered, Excels his mother at her mighty art; Offering to every weary traveller His orient liquor in a crystal glass, To quench the drouth of Phoebus; which as they taste (For most do taste through fond intemperate thirst), Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, The express resemblance of the gods, is changed Into some brutish form of wolf or bear, Or ounce ...
— L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas • John Milton
... a ring, and the bishop gives us the nicest little off-hand talk you ever listens to. I blushes, and Sadie blushes, and Mrs. Twombley-Crane hugs both of us when it's over. Then I has the steward lug up a lot of cold bottles and I breaks a ten year drouth with a whole glass of ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... above Sisson's, issuing from the base of a drift-covered hill. It is lined with emerald algae and mosses, and shaded with alder, willow, and thorn bushes, which give it a fine setting. Its waters, apparently unaffected by flood or drouth, heat or cold, fall at once into white rapids with a rush and dash, as if glad to escape from the darkness to begin their wild course down ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir
... man into his mouth Should put an N M E To steal away his brains"—no drouth Such course ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... south, The vines were brown with cankerous rust, The earth was hot with summer drouth, And all the grapes were ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various |
