"Hygeia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... BUMBLE may do! That is turning the tables a twister! More powers? Ah, well, that might do, But increase my great "Responsibilities," give them Ratepayers a chance Of a calling me hover the coals! Won't this make my hold henemies dance? I never did like that HYGEIA, a pompous and nose-poking minx— A sort of a female Poll Pry, with a heye like an 'ork or a lynx; But the making me "Sanit'ry," too—oh, I know wot that means to a T. She's cock—or say, hen—of the walk, and her sanit'ry slave'll be Me! Oh, I fancy I see myself sweeping the ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, September 5, 1891 • Various
... confidence naturally cautious to utter itself. Can-daules at last said to him in a tone of disappointment: 'I see, Gyges, that you do not believe me. You think I am boasting, or have allowed myself to be fascinated like some clumsy labourer by a robust country girl on whose cheeks Hygeia has crushed the gross hues of health. No, by all the gods! I have collected within my home, like a living bouquet, the fairest flowers of Asia and of Greece. I know all that the art of sculptors and painters has produced since the time of Daedalus, whose statues walked and spoke. ...
— King Candaules • Theophile Gautier
... varied its form, producing novelty at the expense of convenience. Fig. 98 is a whimsical example; it may, however, have been principally used as a signet. The same may be said of Fig. 99, which has a very broad face, set with an incised stone bearing a figure of Hygeia. ...
— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt |
