"Dura" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... uices dextra Et aestuantis more fertur Euripi, Dudum tremendos saeua proterit reges Humilemque uicti subleuat fallax uultum. Non illa miseros audit aut curat fletus 5 Vltroque gemitus dura quos fecit ridet. Sic illa ludit, sic suas probat uires Magnumque suis demonstrat [100] ostentum, si quis Visatur una ...
— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
... not only to haue Images in ther temples / but also to haue them sett abroode and caried openly vppon mens shulders. As it is not vnlike that the Image of Nabugodonosor, which beinge dedicated in the feilde of dura, was caried aboute the whole Region with Musicall Instrumentes and songes / at the sownde of which whersoeuer the Image was seene / commaundement was gyuen vnto all men that they shuld worshipp it: which Daniels felows wolde not do. Of theise thinges I saye / that epistle ...
— A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful • Peter Martyr
... in the years of flight, he had lost his love for the blonde, red-lipped Dura-ki, and with it had gone his bitter hatred ...
— Bride of the Dark One • Florence Verbell Brown
... improviso dira una hora y mas sobre cualquier paso de la Biblia que le abrieren; y si le dicen que lea los sanctos dice que no los lee porque no le sirven de nada. Dijele mas que no debiera, porque para su condicion fue palabra dura.'] ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
... convulsion. The York surgeon said he could not tell whether there was a fracture, until he should take off the scalp; but, at any rate, the operation might be of service in giving vent to any blood that might be extravasated, either above or below the dura mater. The lady and her son were clear for trying the experiment; and Grieve was dismissed with some marks of contempt, which, perhaps, he owed to the plainness of his appearance. He seemed to be about the middle age, wore his own black hair without any sort of dressing; by his garb, one ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
... Nouvelle Biographie Generale 17 932, wrote that the excuses given for the imprisonment of Flinders formed "pauvres pretextes"; but declared that the seals put on Flinders' papers in Mauritius were "loyalement respecte pendant les six ans que dura la captivite du navigateur anglais." That was true. It is a pleasure to acknowledge that all the references to Flinders which the author has seen in French works unanimously and strongly condemn the treatment of him, and do ample justice to his splendid ...
— Terre Napoleon - A history of French explorations and projects in Australia • Ernest Scott |
