"Ret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and night was come, And all men fast asleep, There came the spirit of fair Marg'ret And stood at ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge
... gushing flights of infantile awe or immature adoration. Earnestness, dignity, and at times, sonorous stateliness, become a good poet; and such thoughts as are generally suggested by the confirmed use of "Oh", "Ah", "dear", "little", "pretty", "darling", "sweetest flow'ret of all", "where the morning-glory twineth", and so on, belong less to literary poetry than to the Irving Berlin song-writing industry of "Tin Pan Alley" in the Yiddish wilds of New York City. Mr. Crowley has energy of no mean sort, and if he will ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... avez tu un homme, allez dans le maquis de Porto-Vecchio, et vous y vivrez en sret, avec un bon fusil, de la poudre et des balles; n'oubliez pas un manteau brun garni d'un capuchon, qui sert de couverture et de matelas. Les bergers vous donnent du lait, du fromage et des chtaignes, et vous n'aurez rien craindre de la justice ou des parents du mort, ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... clrissimus et multis mihi beneficiis carus, rogitantibus Arvernis ut populi Romani miesttem ostentret suque simul imperi monumentum eis relinqueret, MRUM latercium, vginti pedes ltum, sexginta altitdine et ita in immensum porrectum ut vix tuis ipse oculis crderes tantum esse, ndum aliis persuderes, non sine adverso suo rmore ut ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... "The flow'ret was mine own, mine own, But I have lost its fragrance rare, And knightly name and freedom fair, ...
— Sintram and His Companions • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque
... vineyards of France. But 'twould not be cheated; of all that was rare, Fond Nature kept whispering a wish thou could'st share: No air softly swelling, no chord struck with glee, But awoke in the bosom remembrance of thee. Even now, as the cold winds adown the leaves bring, We sigh that our flow'ret was blighted ...
— Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 475 - Vol. XVII, No. 475. Saturday, February 5, 1831 • Various
... sweet sequestered dell, The blushing flow'ret smiled; And threw around a pleasing spell, ...
— The Snow-Drop • Sarah S. Mower
... gathering up the reins. "Oh, come out of it, Marg'ret! He doesn't pay me anything. Don't you make Mother stop me, either, will you?" he ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris
... blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young flow'ret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing—a little while— 'Tis pass'd, we know not whither, but ...
— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley
... Colonel Juggins and his wife done with masterly touches; and General Lamum, politician pure and simple, is also excellent. Brother Barker, of the hard-shell type, is less original, though good; while Captain Simmons, Colonel Ret Roberts, and other village idlers and great men, seem admirably true to nature. Except for some absurd melodrama, the tone of the book is quiet and pleasant, and there is here and there in it a vein of real pathos ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various
... bud of distant promise could descry, There all his toil was bent, to fix the root Unmoved, and spread secure the growing shoot. He watch'd the rising blossoms as they grew, Preserv'd with constant care their lively hue, Spread o'er each flow'ret a protecting veil To shelter it from trial's rougher gale, And clear'd, with strenuous and unceasing toil, From each insidious weed th' improving soil. His patient diligence had won at length A partial triumph over nature's strength: Tho' unsuppress'd th' internal weakness still ...
— Gustavus Vasa - and other poems • W. S. Walker
... their land, so them did re-baptize; Though herring for their God few voices missed, And Poor-John to have been the Evangelist. Faith, that could never twins conceive before, Never so fertile, spawned upon this shore More pregnant than their Marg'ret, that laid down For Hands-in-Kelder of a whole Hans-Town. Sure, when religion did itself embark, And from the east would westward steer its ark, It struck, and splitting on this unknown ground, Each one thence pillaged the first piece he found: Hence Amsterdam, Turk, Christian, ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... change. We made a little party and we went across to the Valori restaurant. Here we encountered a polyglot major-domo, who spoke all languages of Europe indifferently ill. "What can we have for dinner?" asked our spokesman. "Ret moiled, domades varcies, et qvail!" He smiled ineffably and evidently thought that he was offering us food for the gods. We ate tough beefsteak, fried in oil, and cursed the delicacies of the country. The diners at Valori's ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray
... for the flow'ret, And honey for the bee, And bowers for the wild bird, And love for ...
— Landscape and Song • Various
... of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust; Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... in the shroud did lurk A curious frame of Nature's work. A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in a cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying; So soon to exchange the imprisoning womb For darker closets of the tomb! ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... cosa alguna... Lo que yo pretenda, lo que me impuls a llamarle, es algo que a sus ojos me rebajara, y yo no quiero rebajarme 290 a los ojos de usted, de quien ha sabido ser creador de s mismo. Hgase usted cuenta de que no le llam, de que no nos hemos visto, y retrese... ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... the wood, Marg'ret, You're welcome here to me; A fairer bower than e'er you saw. I'll ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... "Ret's a ferry coot colour for a het," grumbled Scoodrach, who was very sore, and who kept on gently rubbing the spot where he had given ...
— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn
... Larry. "The detective must be from the private agency," he added to himself. Then aloud: "Did he recognize Mr. Ret—er I mean the man with the fractured skull?" and he waited ...
— Larry Dexter's Great Search - or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire • Howard R. Garis
... "Nod de virst ret cendt for Breitmann! ish dis do pe de gry On de man dat sacked de repels und trinked dem high und dry? By meine Seel' I shvears id, und vhat's more I deglares id's drue, He vonce gleaned oudt a down in half an our, und shtripped ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... involved in a routine of visiting among the family of Barren Field, just ret'd, from Botany Bay—I shall hardly have an open Evening before TUESDAY next. Will you ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb
... in thy beauty;—wilt thou form a garland Round the fair brow of some beloved maiden? Pure though she be, unhallowed temple never, Flow'ret! ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
... in your likes, child," said Aunt Kate nodding. "'Tis a good trait. But I'd like to lay that Marg'ret Llewellen across ...
— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr
... an empty hand, One common sentence on their heads would fall, 'Twas Oakly banquet had bewitch'd them all. Loud roar'd the winds of March, with whirling snow, One brightening hour an April breeze would blow; Now hail, now hoar-frost bent the flow'ret's head, Now struggling beams their languid influence shed, That scarce a cowering bird yet dared to sing 'Midst the wild changes of our island spring. Yet, shall the Italian goatherd boasting cry, ...
— May Day With The Muses • Robert Bloomfield |
