"Screed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr, Scientist, so wise, Since you "pot liquor" do so raise To nth degree, nutrition size, Send us another screed to praise ...
— American Cookery - November, 1921 • Various
... my turn to return thanks, I believe I made a very tolerable speechification, at least everybody says so. Lord Rosse had alluded to "science having to take care of itself in this country," and in winding up I gave them a small screed upon that text. That you may see I kept your caution in mind, I will tell you as nearly as may be what I said. I told them that I could not conceive that anything I had hitherto done merited the honour of that day (I looked so preciously meek over this), but that I was glad to be able ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
... but very glad to feel I was so missed. Also you told me cheerful falsehoods about my Tribune stories. I know they are no good, and as they are no good, the shorter the better, but I like to be told they are good. Anyway, I sat down at once and wrote a long screed on Vera Cruz and the sleepy people that ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis
... write to my dear recluse, intending at first to write only a few lines, as she had requested me; but my time was too short to write so little. My letter was a screed of four pages, and very likely it said less than her note of one ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova • David Widger
... listen, while she read Jarvis's long screed aloud. At the end he, too, sat thoughtfully a few moments, his finger tips neatly matched ...
— Bambi • Marjorie Benton Cooke
... They seldom had a screed of notes before them. Either they knew the stuff by heart, or, what seemed more likely, there was some sympathetic link between them which kept both instruments unerringly to the theme. I could not find how it was done; I ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
... quiet read At Booty Shelly's poetry; I thinks that Swinburne at a screed Is really almost too too fly; At Signor Vagna's harmony I likes a merry little flutter; I've had at Pater many a shy; In fact, my form's ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... I'm told that Grubb's Court ain't exactly aristocratic or clean; see to that. Wotever you advance out o' yer own pocket, I'll pay back with interest. That's to begin with, tell 'em. There's more comin'. There—I'm used up wi' writin' such a long screed. I'd raither dig a twenty-futt hole in clay sile any ...
— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... the day o' solemn things, The bell that in the steeple swings To fauld a scaittered faim'ly rings Its walcome screed; An' just a wee thing nearer brings The ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson |
