"Relict" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Then—My true wife, Farewell! Bless my poor boy! Pray for me! My true God, Hold you both in His arms, both in His arms! I know that he was wrong. You did not know, Sir Lewis, that he had left me a little child. Come closer. You shall see its orphaned face, The sad, sad relict of a man that loved His country—all that's left to me. Come, look!' She beckoned Stukeley nearer. He bent down Curiously. Her feverish ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury. Forty years at least had elapsed since the Peruvian mines had been the death of Mr. Pipchin; but his relict still wore black bombazeen, of such a lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade, that gas itself couldn't light her up after dark, and her presence was a quencher to any number of candles. She was generally spoken ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas
... child will continue to read without understanding; and the habit thus acquired of reading the words, without perceiving the ideas at all, will soon be established and confirmed. Custom has robbed this relict of a former age of much of its repulsiveness; but it is not the less hurtful on that account. Were we to run a parallel with it in any other matter, its true nature and deformity would at once appear. For example, were we to suppose ourselves listening ...
— A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education • James Gall |
