"Nur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... basis he ruthlessly carves out and discards as "unecht" every passage that fails to conform to his amazing and extravagant ideals, in the belief that "der aechte Meister Plautus konnte nur Harmonisches, nur Vernunftiges, nur Logisches, nur relativ Richtiges dichten" (p. 79), though even Homer nods. The Mercator is banned in toto. To be sure, Weise somewhat redeems himself by the statement (p. 29 f.): "Plautus bezweckte ... lediglich nur die eigentliche ...
— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • Wilton Wallace Blancke
... but when she went back to her own room it was to shake her head and murmur: "Po' Marfy, she jes' ez blind ez a bat. She jes' go 'long, holdin' on to dat chile wid all huh might, an' I see death in Lucy's face now. Dey ain't no faif nur prayer, nur Jack-leg doctors nuther gwine ...
— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... at noon. The Dervish Emir, Nur Angara, who with 200 black riflemen and two brass guns had been left in command of the garrison, made haste to submit. The remainder of the Dervishes, continuing their flight under the Emir Saadalla, hurried to tell the tale of defeat ...
— The River War • Winston S. Churchill
... "That's neither here nur there," said Jed hastily. "The nub of the hull thing is that if it hadn't been fer me, yer might be doin' the lock step in Atlanta or Leavenworth, or some other of them gover'ment jails. How would yer like that, eh? And wearin' ...
— The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall - Or, Great Days in School and Out • Spencer Davenport
... laughed till he fell on his back and ordered that the story be recorded and be made public amongst the people. But Ja'afar said, "Marvel not, O Commander of the Faithful, at this adventure, for it is not more wondrous than the History of the Wazir Nur al-Din Ali of Egypt and his brother Shams al-Din Mohammed. — Quoth the Caliph, "Out with it; but what can be stranger than this story?" And Ja'afar answered, "O Commander of the Faithful, I will not tell it thee, save on condition that thou pardon my slave;" and the Caliph rejoined, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... Seligkeit und ein Meer von bitteren Leiden Die Italienerin gab—Seligkeit, Seligkeit nur Laessest Du mich entzuendend, begeistert, befaendig empfinden, In der Spanierin fand ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... from the fact that the traditional Indian diamond, the "Great Mogul," is said to have weighed 280 carats. This stone, however, is lost, and some experts believe that it was divided, part of it forming the present famous Koh-i-nur; at any rate, all trace of the Great Mogul ceased with the looting of Delhi in 1739. The Koh-i-nur weighs a little over 106 carats; before cutting it weighed a shade over 186; the Cullinan, in the same state, weighed nearly 3254 carats. This massive diamond was cut into about 200 ...
— The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones • John Mastin
... so lang du das nicht hast Dies-es: Stirb und Werde, Bist du nur ein trueber Gast Auf ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various
... mit eiligem Bestreben Sucht sich, was sich angehoert, Und zu ungemessnem Leben Ist Gefuehl und Blick gekehrt. Sei's ergreifen, sei es raffen, Wenn es nur sich fasst und haelt! Allah braucht nicht mehr zu schaffen, Wir erschaffen ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel
... our way to Vernag, the celebrated spring which is supposed to be the source of the Jhelum river. The Moghul Emperor Akbar built there a summer palace, and the arches, on which it is said rested the private apartments of the lovely Nur ...
— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts
... not found it necessary to distinguish John the Baptist from the Apostle John his namesake even so much as once (auch nur ein einziges Mal) by the addition [Greek: ...
— Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot
... aller Welt In allen ernsten Dingen, * * * * * Was Man als fremd euch hoechlichst preist Um eurer Einfalt Willen, Ist deutschen Ursprungs allermeist, Und traegt nur ...
— The European Anarchy • G. Lowes Dickinson
... Schaden gebracht hat, so war es der, das wir allen Philosophie, besonderers aber der Metaphysick recht herzlich gram wurden, und bleiben, dagegen aber auf lebendige Wissen, Erfahren, Thun und Dichten uns nur desto lebhafter und ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... verzagen Und ich glaubt' ich trug es nie, Und ich hab' es doch getragen— Aber fragt mich nur nicht, wie." {134} ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... I, 300: "Die Raeuber des jungen Schiller, welcher sich damals nicht einmal um den nordamerikanischen Freiheitskrieg, geschweige denn um das gewitterschwuele Frankreich bekuemmerte, waren nur ein Symptom und eine Vorahnung; eine Wirkung im Kleinen ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas
... was probably the one said to have been given to Edward the Black Prince by Pedro the Cruel of Castile, after the battle of Najera, in 1367, and now the most prized adornment of the English Crown, excepting the great historic diamond, the Koh-i-nur. The immense Star of South Africa, weighing 531 metric carats, five times the weight of the Koh-i-nur, is intrinsically worth much more, but lacks the manifold dramatic and historic ...
— Shakespeare and Precious Stones • George Frederick Kunz
... took the title of Jehan Gir. The Deckan, hardly subdued, achieved something like independence under a great soldier and administrator of Abyssinian origin, named Malik Amber. In the sixth year of his reign Jehan Gir married the beautiful Nur Jehan, by whose influence the emperor's natural brutality was greatly modified in practice. His son, Prince Khurram, later known as Shah Jehan, distinguished himself in war with the Rajputs, displaying a character not unworthy ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee
... the grass, 'n' her voice comin' outen the night like one of them prophets what maybe she war a-readin' 'bout. Yeou see," his voice assumed a mystic, whispery tone, "she never knowed when hit war night, 'n' the people wouldn't tell her, nur make a move till she quit—beant hit even mawnin'. Arter readin', she'd talk awhile; tellin' 'em things they'd orter do, 'n' things they'd orten't. 'N' onct she clean busted up a feud by makin' two ole fellers shake han's. That caught the preacher's ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris
... as you say, Mr. Meyerstein, an example of early Tulun-Nur work," he said. "It may be sixteenth century or even earlier. The Kuren treasure-chest in the Hague Collection has points of similarity, but the workmanship of this specimen ...
— The Hand Of Fu-Manchu - Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor • Sax Rohmer
... Indic antiquities with those of Egypt and China, and his attitude towards the question of their value is distinctly expressed in one of his prose proverbs: "Chinesische, Indische, Aegyptische Altertuemer sind immer nur Curiositaeten: es ist sehr wohl gethan, sich und die Welt damit bekannt zu machen; zu sittlicher und aesthetischer Bildung aber werden sie uns ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... Sooyoong. Shell Kai Oosheemaw. Ship Fune Hoonee. Shoe Kwutsu Sabock. Shoulders Kata Kutta. Sick Itami mono, bioki Yadong. mono, jamai mono Silk Kinno Eechoo. Silver Gin Jing. Sing, to Utau Ootashoong, or ootayoong. Sister (eldest) Musme are Oui. Sleep Nur Nintee. Sleep, to Nuru Ninjoong. Slow Sisukamai, jojajora Yoona, yawna. Small Ko, komaka Coosa. Smell Nivi, niwoi Kabbasha. Smell, to Kusamu Kannoung, kashashoong. Smoke Honoo Kinsee. Smoke, to Kemoli Footchoong. Smoke tobacco, to Tabaco, nomu Tobacco, footchoong. ...
— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall
... West bewegt mein Klagen, Es rauscht der Bach den Seufzern nach Aus Mitleid meiner Plagen; Die Voegel schweigen, Um nur zu zeigen Dass diese schoene Tyrannei Auch Tieren ueberlegen sei.' Abendlied contains beautiful personifications: 'Der Feierabend ist gemacht, Die Arbeit schlaeft, der Traum erwacht, Die Sonne fuehrt die Pferde trinken; Der Erdkreis wandert zu der Ruh, ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... ihm reisen. Ich bin an seine Sentiments zum Theil schon so gewhnt, sie bis in das weiche innere Mark seiner Menschheit in ihren zarten Fden zu verfolgen: dass ich glaube seinen Tristram etwas mehr zu verstehn als the common people. Nur um so mehr rgern mich auch seine verfluchten Suereien und Zweideutigkeiten, die das Buch wenigerer Empfehlung fhig machen als es verdient." We learn from the same letter that Herder possessed the sermons of Yorick in the Zrich translation. Herder's own homiletical style during this period, ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer
... NUR. Ay, and in dreadful wise, as thou shalt hear. When all alone she had gone within the gate, And passing through the court beheld her boy Spreading the couch that should receive his sire, Ere he returned to meet him,—out ...
— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles
... stared like two geese; But he sed, woll th' tear stood in his e'e, "Nay, it'll just be a penny a piece." "God bless thi! do just as tha will, An may better days speedily come; Tho clam'd, an hauf donn'd, mi lad, still Tha'rt a deal nearer Heaven nur some." ...
— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley
... just like an old gun, and I don't want any sich doin's on my premises. No sir! I ain't so old but I can pump water out of a well yet, and it's handy enough.' 'Tain't more'n just across the strate, and whin 'tain't dusty, nur snowy, nur ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... hands," said Tom; "nothin' can go no furder than he lets it;—and thar's one thing I can thank him for. It's me that's sold and going down, and not you nur the chil'en. Here you're safe;—what comes will come only on me; and the Lord, he'll ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... ermattet Die langsam schafft, doch nie zerstoert, Die zu dem Bau der Ewigkeiten Zwar Sandkorn nur, fuer Sandkorn reicht, Doch von der grossen Schuld der Zeiten Minute, ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt
... the son of Job—was by descent a Kurd. His father was a retainer or follower of the celebrated Nur-ed-Din (Light of Religion), Sultan of Syria, the prince who, after many years of humiliation, recovered some of the lost prestige of the Mohammedan name, wrested many of their outlying strongholds from the Christians, and prepared the way for his ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various
... the most beautiful endings imaginable; "Mir ist, nun ich die habe" has a deep significance in much simplicity, and its ending, by breaking the rule against consecutive octaves, attains, as rule-breakings have an unpleasant habit of doing, an excellent effect. "Liebste, nur dich seh'n" is a passionate lyric; and "Wenn die Voeglein sich gepaart" is florid and trilly, but legitimately so; it should find much concert use. These songs, indeed, are all more than ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes
... Nacht Gebirg' und Thal Vermummt in Rabenschatten, Und Hochburgs Lampen uberall Schon ausgeflimmert hatten, Und alles tief entschlafen war; Doch nur das Fraulein immerdar, Voll Fieberangst, noch wachte, Und seinen Ritter dachte: Da horch! Ein susser Liebeston Kam leis, empor geflogen. 'Ho, Trudchen, ho! Da bin ich schon! ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot
... Consul at Bruxelles and that it was not my province to give to the Consul any directions as to its form and tenor. The Commissary of Police then asked me what business I was about in travelling, and the following conversation took place: "Was haben Sie fuer Geschaefte?"—"Keine; ich reise nur um Vergnuegen's Willen."—" Sonderbar!"—"Worin liegt das Sonderbare, dass man reist um ein schoenes Land zu sehen?"[20]—He made no answer to this, but one of his coadjutors standing by him said in a loud whisper, "Ein Herumreiser," which means an adventurer ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye
... which an account is given of the learned Nur who was the cause of such extraordinary joy ...
— Honey-Bee - 1911 • Anatole France
... upon cheer rent the air from these crowds of drunken blasphemers; and in one place the carriage in which he sat was actually lifted from the ground, and carried some rods, by hands yet red with deeds of arson and murder; while from all sides voices cried out, "Will ye stop the draft, Gov'nur?" "Bully boy!" "Ye're the man for us!" "Hooray for Gov'nur Saymoor!" Thus, through the midst of this admiring and applauding crowd, this high officer of the law, sworn to maintain public peace, moved to his hotel, where he was met by a despatch from Washington, informing ...
— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson
... Die Baukunst der Renaissance in Portugal, says that 'Der Plan durchaus englisch ist (Lang-und Querschiff fast ganz identisch mit dener der Kathedral zu Canterbury, nur thurmlos).' ...
— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson
... Getranke genossen haben als zehn Bube wahrend ihres ganzen Lebens. Der Handelsrum welcher wie ich mich ofters uberzeugt zwar recht verwassert aber keineswegs abstossend schlecht schmeckt, ist den Bube gewohnlich nur eine Delikatesse welche mit Andacht schluckweise genossen wird. Wenn ein Arbeiter bei uns einen Schluck Branntwein oder ein Glas Bier geniesst um sich zu starken, so findet das Jeder in der Ordnung; der Bube jedoch, welcher splitternackt tagelang in feuchten Bergwaldern umher ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... noble onnur has a bin pleesd to stipilate and lay by for these here improvements [And glorious improvements they will be, let me tell your onnur. I think I knows a sumthink of the matter; thos to be sure I must a say as how I am no more nur a chit, a kintlin, to your onnur, in matters of taste and the grande goosto, and all a that there; but I'll give your onnur my two ears if there be any think at all komparissuble or parallel to it in all England.] But as I wus a sayin to your noble onnur—I am afeard we shall ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... (as he thinks): to her he may say what he must not say to anyone, since in speaking to her he but speaks to himself. "Was Keinem in Worten unausgesprochen," he says to her, "bleib es ewig: mit mir nur rath' ich, ...
— The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring • George Bernard Shaw
... one's self," is given a peculiar interpretation by Lippert, who sees in it a relic of the burial of the dead (soul) beneath the hearth, threshold, or floor of the house; "wessen Mutter im Hause ruht, der kann daheim immer nur mit seiner Mutterseele selbander allein sein." Or, perhaps, it goes back to the time when, as with the Seminoles of Florida, the babe was held over the mouth of the mother, whose death resulted from its birth, in order that her departing ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... how fast it pours! I'm sure we can't go out of doors While it is rain-ing thus; So let us in the nur-se-ry stay, To have a mer-ry game, and ...
— The Infant's Delight: Poetry • Anonymous
... Grosse in der Welt Ist immer nur Das was nicht gleich gefaellt Und wen der Poebel zum Gotte weiht, Der steht auf dem ...
— The Art of Literature • Arthur Schopenhauer
... huckstering kinds of consideration he thanked God he was forever inaccessible, and if in life's vicissitudes he should become destitute through their lack, he was glad to think that with his sheer valor he was all the freer to work out his salvation. "Wer nur selbst was hatte," says Lessing's Tempelherr, in Nathan the Wise, "mein Gott, mein Gott, ich habe nichts!" This ideal of the well-born man without possessions was embodied in knight-errantry and templardom; and, hideously ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
... arab. meti to put, to place. baldaux soon. nazo nose. Bostono Boston. nur only, merely. frato brother. pusxi to push. kamelo camel. trans across. kapo head. tuta whole, entire, all. kolo neck. urbo city. korpo ...
— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman
... langen Tag Hab ich nur Schmerz und Plag Und darf am Abend doch nit weine. Wen ich am Fendersteh, Und in die Nacht nei seh, So ganz ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... Brust, Dir schlaegt dies Herz, Du meine Lust! O du, mein Schmerz! Nur an den Winden, den Sternen der Hoeh, Muss ich ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... roundelays for the special delectation of the English guests; we had remarked her delicate hands, the great dark eyes, the dainty profile, the little ivory feet, and above all the gentle voice and courteous bearing; and we realized that Nur Jan had not been bred to this uncurtained life, but must once have known the care, affection and the gentle ...
— By-Ways of Bombay • S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
... christlich Obrigkeit moege nicht nur, sondern solle auch sich der Religion und Glaubenssachen mit Ernst annehmen; davon halten die Wiedertaeufer steif das Widerspiel, welches sie auch zum Theil gemein haben mit den Praelaten der roemischen Kirche" (Declaration ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... mines, and presented by Amir Jumla to Shah Jahan. The much-disputed history of the Kohinur has been exhaustively discussed by Valentine Ball (Tavernier's Travels in India: Appendix I (1), 'The Great Mogul's Diamond and the true History of the Koh-i-nur; and (2) 'Summary History of the Koh-i- nur'). He has proved that the Kohinur is almost certainly the diamond given by Amir (Mir) Jumla to Shah Jahan, though now much reduced in weight by mutilation and repeated cutting. Assuming the identity of the Kohinur ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... into my hiding-places, and stay there listening to the garden resounding with cries of "Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Come in at once to your lessons!" Or, at a different period, "Ou etes-vous donc, petite sotte?" Or at yet another period, "Warte nur, wenn ich dich erst habe!" As the voices came round one corner, I whisked in my noiseless clothes round the next, and it was only Fraulein Wundermacher, a person of resource, who discovered that all she needed for my successful circumvention ...
— Elizabeth and her German Garden • "Elizabeth", AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp
... "Nur das traute, hoch heilige Paar Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar Schlaf' in himmlischer Ruh', Schlaf' in ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... in the narrow sense; and inner or organic. Wagner has expressed it in a sentence which defies even a free translation. Speaking of the lovely melodies of the Italian opera he says: "Nicht das schlagende Herz der Nachtigall begriff man, sondern nur ihren Kehlschlag." Men cared only for the pleasing sound of the nightingale's voice, nothing for the beating ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight
... subsequently died at Tokat, in Asiatic Turkey, in 1812. The incidental mention of the great diamond or 'Mountain of Light' that was worn by Fath Ali Shah in one of his bazubands or armlets, though historically inaccurate, is also of interest to English readers; since the jewel alluded to is the Daria-i-Nur or Sea of Light, the sister-stone to the Koh-i-Nur or Mountain of Light, which, in the previous century, had been carried from Persia to Afghanistan, and in this century passed through the hands of Runjit Singh, the Lion of the Punjab, into the regalia ...
— The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan • James Morier |
