"Visa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... telescope as a souvenir of the pleasant interviews, while hoping that the Governor might behave better to the Jews in future. His Excellency, in return, as a token of his appreciation of Mr Montefiore's visit, affixed the Visa to his passport in most flattering terms. As these were very peculiar, I append ...
— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore
... est parvi Rubiconis ad undas, ingens visa duci patriae trepidantis imago, clara per obscuram voltu maestissima noctem turrigero canos effundens vertice crines caesarie lacera nudisque adstare lacertis et gemitu permixta loqui: 'quo tenditis ultra? quo fertis mea signa, viri? ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler
... the visa plate. The E-Stat asteroid was of a reasonable size, but in their eyes it was a bleak, torn mote of stuff swimming ...
— Plague Ship • Andre Norton
... novem, genitrici Callicrateae, Nullius sexus mors mihi visa fuit. Sed centum et quinque explevi bene messibus annos, In tremulam ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 • Various
... was refused the right of sending ciphered telegrams and our charge d'affaires in a European capital suffered the same deprivation, while the Bolshevist envoy enjoyed this diplomatic privilege. A councilor of embassy in one Allied country was refused a passport visa for another until he declared that if the refusal were upheld he would return a high order which for extraordinary services he had received from the government whose embassy was vetoing his visa. On the national festival of a certain Allied country the charge d'affaires of Russia ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon
... her goodness, except her immediate connections. Others, on the contrary, are disposed to form unfavourable opinions of her mind, and disposition, if it be but to excuse themselves for their instinctive dislike of one so unfavoured by nature; and visa versa with her whose angel form conceals a vicious heart, or sheds a false, deceitful charm over defects and foibles that would not be tolerated in another. They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, like any other talent; they that have it not, let them ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... that was told by each adventurous navigator of his time:—"Ut quis ex longinquo venerat, miracula narrabant, vim turbinum, et inauditas volucres, monstra maris, ambiguas hominum et belluarum formas, —visa, sive ex motu credita" (An. II. 24). Nothing was going on in the days of Tacitus, which could have put such a notion in his head; nor is the passage from which it is taken at all in his style, as will be admitted when I immediately proceed to compare and contrast certain passages ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross |
