"Pyle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... After their supper, the children, when little, would come trotting up to their mother's room to be read to, and it was always a surprise to me to notice the extremely varied reading which interested them, from Howard Pyle's "Robin Hood," Mary Alicia Owen's "Voodoo Tales," and Joel Chandler Harris's "Aaron in the Wild Woods," to "Lycides" and "King John." If their mother was absent, I would try to act as vice-mother—a poor substitute, I fear—superintending the supper and ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... [Fol. 48b.]] [Sidenote: The words of Solomon.] The ry[gh]twys man also sertayn Aproche he schal {a}t proper pyle, at take[gh] not her lyf in vayne Ne glauere[gh] her nie[gh]bor wyth no gyle; 688 Of ys ry[gh]t-wys sa[gh][28] salamon playn, How kyntly oure con aquyle By waye[gh] ful stre[gh]t he con hym strayn, & scheued hy{m} e rengne of god a whyle, 692 As quo says "lo [gh]on louely yle, {o}u may hit ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... later came Howard Pyle, Joseph Fennel and Alfred Parsons. Young Abbey did his work with much good-cheer, and sought to place himself with the best. For a time he drew just like Alexander, then like Reinhart; next, Parsons was ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard
... years of age, full black, and medium size. As he had been worked hard on poor fare, he concluded to leave, in company with his brother and two cousins, leaving his parents in slavery, owned by the "Widow Pyle," who was also the owner of himself. "She was upwards of eighty, very passionate and ill-natured, although a member of the Presbyterian Church." James may be ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still |
