"Mil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Chicago is," interposed the New Yorker. "Have you been up Fifth Avenue to see the magnificent residences of our mil—" ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... un cruel orage On me laisse perir; En courant au naufrage Je vois chacun me plaindre et mil me secourir, Felicite passee Qui ne peux revenir Tourment de ma pensee Que n'ai-je en te perdant perdu le souvenir! Le sort, plein d'injustice M'ayant enfin rendu Ce reste un pur supplice, Je serais plus heureux si ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... chicken's lucky does he git by widout gittin' his health an' stren'th mussed up befo' dis trip ends. At res', Lily, till I brings you some nutriment. Doggone ol' bird must have near wore you out. 'At's de way wid dem mil'tary commands. Res' yo'se'f, Lily, till ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley
... Camino de cinquenta leguas, o de ciento, o de doscientas, es de creer que aunque la tierra fuera mas aspera, no se tu biera en mucho con buena diligencia hacerlo; mas estos eran tan largos que havia alguno que tenia mas de mil y cien leguas, todo hechado por sierras tan grandes y espantosas que por algunas partes mirando abajo se quitaba la vista, y algunas de estas Sierras derechas y llenas de pie dras, tanto que era menester cavar por las laderas en pena ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... Honestly, Mil, she was absolutely unbearable this evening. It was bad enough to have her go stalking across the lawn with that old snuff stick of hers stuck in the corner of her mouth, and singing that terrible song of hers at the very top of her lungs and wearing that scandalous old straw hat stuck up on her ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... China ay dos relaciones, y es, que a los dezisiete de Nouiembre del ano de mil y quinietos y sessenta y quatro, por mandado de su Mage. se hizo vna armada en el puerto de la Natiuidad e la mar del Sur, cient leguas de Mexico, de dos naues, y dos pataysos, para descubrir las yslas dela especieria, que las llaman ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair
... liberties of "America on the justest and firmest basis that was "ever yet recorded in the annuals of history, you "now enjoy the supremest of all earthly happiness "that of diffusing peace, liberty, and safety to mil- ...
— Washington's Masonic Correspondence - As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress • Julius F. Sachse
... Por su vida y buen talante, [125] Al atrevido estudiante Le sealan entre mil; Fueros le da su osada, Le disculpa su riqueza, Su generosa ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... dot I go tell ze man dot he vill let my fader go, and ven my granfader bring me, and I come dare, I tink I say dot; but I tell him dot he vill not kill my moder, and I cry, too loud I cry. Zen ze man go vay high on hees feets mil his hand on my head, and he say some vords to ze men vot bees dare, and he say some vords to my granfader. Zen he go roun on his feets and he say some vords to my fader. He tell him, dot he vill be good? dot he vill not drink ze beer? dot he vill vork? dot he vill make ze ...
— Stories of Childhood • Various
... after the Battle of Waterloo the National Debt amounted to nine hundred mil- lions of money; at the present time it amounts to about five hundred and seventy millions, and is steadily diminishing. This being the case, there is of course no need of further borrowing at present, but the loans ...
— Everybody's Guide to Money Matters • William Cotton, F.S.A.
... commercial organizations edu educational institutions gov U.S. government civilian sites mil ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... alia diris "Mi esperas ke vi ne venis ekster via vojo pro mi," fine ili alvenis al la enirejo de granda palaco, en kiu logxas du aux tri familioj je cxiu etagxo. Sro. A. akceligxis ion, kaj Sro. B. haltis, konvinkite ke Sro. A. alvenis hejmen. Ambaux diris mil komplimentojn kaj "bonan nokton" multefoje kaj "Je nia revido" sed ili kuneniras kaj supreniras al la unua etagxo, kie ili rehaltis; sed certe neniu estis cxe si: Tial ili supreniris per la dua sxtuparo k.t.p. ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 3 • Various
... L'an Mil huit cent un, le vingt-deuxieme jour d'Aout, les Etats, a leur premiere tenue depuis la nouvelle de la victoire qu'a remportee l'Amiral Sir James Saumarez sur la flotte combinee de la France et de l'Espagne, dans les Passages de Gibraltar, ont un devoir de manifester ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross
... dei mater, defende malis Jacobum Car: Presbiteris, quoque clericulis domus hec fit in anno Mil' quin' cen' duoden'. Jesu nostri miserere: Senes cum ...
— A History of Giggleswick School - From its Foundation 1499 to 1912 • Edward Allen Bell
... applications for bukshish. At first one hears, "Sahib, Sahib!" in a deprecating tone of voice, mindful of sudden wakings of former Sahibs, sticks, and consequent sore backs, then piu forte, "Sahib!" crescendo, "Sahib, Sahib!" and then at last, in a burst of harmony, "Sahib purana Baira kutch bukshish mil jawe?"[33] and the miserable doolie traveller, who has been, probably, feigning sleep in sulky savageness for the last ten minutes, makes a sudden dive through the curtains with a stick, an exclamation is heard very like swearing, only in a foreign language, and the troop of applicants ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... Echets moralise ... Cy finist le liure des eschecz et lordre de cheualerie, translattee de latin en francoys imprime a Paris: et fut acheue le xiiii iour de nouembre mil cinq cent et cinq. Par Michel le noir libraire ... demourant deuant Saint Denys de la chartre a limaige ...
— Game and Playe of the Chesse - A Verbatim Reprint Of The First Edition, 1474 • Caxton
... stubby nose to the grindstone out there in Chicago, and makin' a plain insignificant business man out of him, and I'd ought to let her have her way with the girl, being that I couldn't expect her to go to work too. So Mil will work the society end. I says to the madam, I says, 'All right, have your own way; and we'll see whether you make more out of the girl than I make out of the boy,' I says. But it ain't going to be all digging up. I've made the baron promise ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... the Order of the British Empire (Mil.) Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, Officer of the Crown of Italy Fellow of the ...
— by Victor LeFebure • J. Walker McSpadden
... of "Pensees," extracted from the Journal, and printed at the end of a volume of poems published in 1853, frequently softened his phrases, so that sentences which survive in the Journal in a more technical form are to be found in a more literary form in the "Grains de Mil." ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... have no doubt that "Kulah" is meant for "Kulah," a Dervish's cap. "Busah" puzzles me. I am inclined to take it for a reed used as a case or sheath, as we shall see p. 263 of the MS. Prince Yusuf uses a "Kasabah" or reed to enclose a letter in it. "Mi'lakat (popular corruption for 'Mil'akat') al-Hilal" may be the spoon or hollow part of an ear-picker, Hilal being given by Bocthor as equivalent for "cure-oreille." Lastly for "al-Jinnah" I would read "al-Habbah"grain. The article before the word may indicate ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... king James. Before they sailed from Brest, king William, being informed of their destination, detached admiral Herbert from Spithead with twelve ships of the line, one fire-ship, and four tenders, in order to intercept the enemy. He was driven by stress of weather into Mil-ford-haven, from whence he steered his course to Kin-sale, on the supposition that the French fleet had sailed from Brest, and that in all probability he should fall in with them on the coast of Ireland. On the first day of May he discovered them at anchor in Bantry-bay, and stood in to engage them, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... previously, had cultivated the crown lands, on condition of their paying five per cent. of the value of the land against the issue of their title-deeds. Under the Tapoo system the crown lands become subject to two fixed taxes—the Verghoo, about four per mil. on the estimated value of the land; and the Ushr or tithe, which should be a tenth part of the produce of ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various
... was thinking this, he felt a sudden pressure upon his hand. Lola had seized it and was kissing the big fingers passionately, while she cried, "Gracias! mil gracias, senor! You have made me well! When my papa comes he will bless you! He will pour gold over you ...
— A Prairie Infanta • Eva Wilder Brodhead
... maints particuliers La somme de dix mil une livre une obole, Pour l'avoir sans relache un an sur sa parole Habille, voiture, chauffe, chausse, ...
— Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic • Henri Bergson
... ragged, barefooted night policeman inspires more terror in the law-abiding than the professional prowler. The former has a sharp sword, which glitters as he threatens, and the latter has often a kind heart, and only asks "mil reis" (about ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray
... I really care about," cried Tims. "You've been a pig to her, Mil. She says you're a devil, and if I weren't a scientific woman I swear I should begin to believe ...
— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods
... los Reyes pudieron tanto que salieron con su intencion y ellos tubieron por bien de cumplir su mandado y tan de veras se entendio en ello que en tiempo de pocos anos se savia y usaba una lengua en mas de mil y doscientas ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... vere internacia en siaj elementoj[1], la lingvo Esperanto prezentas al la mondo civilizita la sole veran solvon[2] de lingvo internacia: cxar[3], tre facila por homoj nemulte instruitaj, Esperanto estas komprenata sen peno de la personoj bone edukitaj. Mil faktoj atestas la meriton ...
— Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education • Richard Bartholdt and A. Christen
... on the school learns!" she fumed. "Und your teacher she learns you you should like so mil your papa's breakfast und cats make! She is then ...
— Little Citizens • Myra Kelly
... obscure. *3* 'Hoc itaque nuncio laeti altero ac incensi . . . Sacramento expiationis et pane fortim roborati' (Ennis, 'Efemerides'). *4* Cardiel, in his 'Declaracion de la Verdad', p. 426, says: 'Lo mismo es 28,000 mil Indios que igual numero de ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... mil mejlojn da marakvo nur por seka terpeco, longa erikejo,[8] brunigxinta dornstipejo,[9] io ajn! Estu do la superega Volo! Sed mi preferus seke ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 2 • Various
... Theresa Lyle stood by a statue that glittered in the sun, surrounded by a group of cavaliers; among them Lord Beaumanoir, Lord Mil-ford, Lord Eugene de Vere. Her figure was not less lithe and graceful since her marriage, a little more voluptuous; her rich complexion, her radiant and abounding hair, and her long grey eye, now melting with pathos, and now twinkling with mockery, presented one of ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli
... diferancia tal, con gracia tanta, A quel ruysenor llora, que sospecho Que tiene otros cien mil dentro del pecho, Que alterno su dolor por ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... d'Orien lus Tres reys la stralla veran, Deu omnipotent, Adora lo vingaran. Un present inferan, De mil encens y or, A lu beneit Seno, Que conesce cual se ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant
... written down from Barber's statements seemed at all familiar to their ears; but Mr. White obtained a vocabulary which showed that their language was nearly the same as that of the aborigines at Wallamoul; the only difference being the addition of na to each noun, as namil for mil, the eye, etc. ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... the whole twenty-odd years of Lonnie's success was the abiding crux of Jason's disgust. And this, in spite of the more and more men Jason came to control and the fitful stream of new techniques and equipment Gov-Pol and Gov-Mil Labs put ...
— Zero Data • Charles Saphro
... Roy de France Henry sec[o]d leur souverain seigneur, Et a Tresillustre dame, maDame Katharine de Medicis, La Royne son espouse, lors de leur triumphant joyeux et nouvel advenement en icelle ville, Qui fut es iours d'Octobre, Mil cinq cens cinquante, Et pour plus expresse intelligence de ce tant excellent triumphe, Les figures et pourtraictz des principaulx aornements d'iceluy y sont apposez chascun en son lieu comme l'on pourra veoir par le discours de l'histoire.... Avec priuilege du Roy. On les vend a rouen chez Robert ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
... wa'al, when I went home that night I stopped into a mil'nery store, an' after I'd stood 'round a minute, a girl come up an' ast me if she ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... of deserting; he says that they ought to be constantly on their guard to do nothing during their service contrary to the law of God, and to resolve to suffer martyrdom rather than submit to a base compliance, or openly to renounce the service. (De Cor. Mil. ii. p. 127.) He does not positively decide that the military service is not permitted to Christians; he ends, indeed, by saying, Puta denique licere militiam usque ad causam coronae.—G. ——M. Guizot is. I think, again unfortunate in his defence of Tertullian. That father says, that ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon
... i, also, our idiom receaves tuae soundes, as in a man's wil, and the wil of a fox. Heer, also, I wald have our men learne of the south, for these soundes they wel distinguish, wryting wil, fil, mil, stil, with i; and wyl, ...
— Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue - A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles • Alexander Hume
... green, and bright, and gay, And bloom'd as fair as Eden's bow'rs. But mil-dew in her sunbeams lay, And scorpions ...
— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna
... by De Morgan upon the subject of decimal coinage. He was a great advocate of the pound and mil scheme. His evidence on this subject was sought by the Royal Commission, and, besides constantly supporting the Decimal Association in periodical publications, he published several separate pamphlets ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various
... plural form. deux mille 2000; deux milles means two miles. Mil is used in Christian era, l'an Mil ...
— The Aural System • Anonymous
... way to the Creek nation, he fell in with Leclerc Mil-fort, an adventurous Frenchman, who afterwards wrote a book of travels, and was made a general of brigade by Napoleon. Milfort married one of McGillivray's sisters, was made Tustenug-gee (or grand war chief), and was the right-hand man of his powerful brother-in-law. The first that was heard ...
— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris
... de Missire: bertram: du gueaqui en: son vivat: conetiable de france: qui: trepassa: le: xiii^e jour: de: jullet: l'an: mil iii^e IIII^xx dont: son: corps: repos avecques: ceulx: des: Roys ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... "mil grazie!" [Footnote: Thanks! A thousand thanks!] And in a paroxysm of delight, he seized one of ...
— Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon • Lucy M. Blanchard
... o menos,(a little more or less) as the Spaniards say when they are complimented with Viva V. S. mil anos (may you live a ...
— A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 • Richard Twiss
... which may be the outcome of love; the reason for this is, that when he is in love it is not he, but the species which is grieving. In Calderon's Zenobia the Great there is a scene in the second act between Zenobia and Decius where the latter says, Cielos, luego tu me quieres? Perdiera cien mil victorias, Volvierame, etc. (Heavens! then you love me? For this I would sacrifice a thousand victories, etc.) In this case honour, which has hitherto outweighed every other interest, is driven out ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... hesitated, looked around, coldly, it seemed to me, at Mildred Case. "A scandal," he repeated, "is scarcely what might be expected among a harmonious and earnest band of seekers after scientific knowledge. Is it, Mil—Miss Case?" ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... regiments in the field; commands Department of the Tennessee; hastens to Chattanooga; marches to relief of Burnside; horror of E. Tennessee; dissatisfied with Granger; good dinner at Burnside's headquarters, explanation of; Meridian expedition; promoted to command Mil. Division of the Mississippi; visits Schofield at Knoxville; urges confirmation of his appointment as major general; correspondence with Halleck; modest estimate of his own powers; studies problem of supplying his army in the field; takes ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... hour after daylight we approached the Kamchadal settlement of Milkova (mil'-ko-vah), the largest native village in the peninsula. The rain had ceased, and the clouds were beginning to break away, but the air was still cold and raw. A courier, who had been sent down in a canoe ...
— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan |
