"Disco" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... years when he traveled to Brussels in April 2004. QADHAFI also finally resolved in 2004 several outstanding cases against his government for terrorist activities in the 1980s by paying compensation to the families of victims of the UTA and La Belle disco bombings. ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... answered Shandon; "but let me tell you in my turn that you will not be the only possessor of such a waif. The Danish governor of the island of Disco—" ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... you don' want to be draggin' no foreign disco'se into yo' talk heah befo' Mr. Siner ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling
... mali, miseris succurrere disco (Being not unacquainted with woe, I learn to help the unfortunate).—VIRGIL: ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... Washington, and Canada. Afterwards took a turn amongst the retail-shops, to see their system. Mr. Stewart, Broadway, and a few others, are done upon the London style, but the lower class take any price they can get. Disco- ...
— Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic • George Moore
... ferre manu? Parva puella refert: mater, perizomate prunas Portabo flammae ne nocuisse queant. Quid facies igitur, Anus inquit? Serviet hicce Mi cinis, illa refert; quo super hasce feram. Mox exclamat Anus: disco, moriorque profecto. En disco moriens quae latuere senem: ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... account of the removal of Disco Island in Rink's Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, p. 464, where one old man vainly tries to keep back the island by means of a seal-skin thong which snaps, while two other old men haul it away triumphantly by ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Anonymous
... England, May the 26th, 1845. They arrived at the Whalefish Islands, a group to the south of Disco, on the 4th of July. On the 26th they were seen moored to an iceberg, in 74 degrees 48 minutes north latitude, and 66 degrees 13 minutes west longitude, by a Hull whaler, the Prince of Wales, Captain Dannet. The ships had then on board provisions ...
— Our Sailors - Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign • W.H.G. Kingston
... mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss! [Lat.] [Vergil]. Phr. one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Lat.] [Vergil]; a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind; onor di bocca assai giova e poco ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... Cried ever' time one was douced, an' I had to fetch him away. In our Methodist meetin's he seemed to git worked up an' pervoked, some way. An' the Presbyterians, he didn't take no stock in them at all. Ricollect, one Sunday the preacher, he preached a mighty powerful disco'se on the doctrine o' lost infants not 'lected to salvation—an' Sonny? Why, he slep' ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... Belgium. Rupelian Clay of Hermsdorf near Berlin. Mayence Basin. Lower Miocene of Croatia. Oligocene Strata of Beyrich. Lower Miocene of Italy. Lower Miocene of England. Hempstead Beds. Bovey Tracey Lignites in Devonshire. Isle of Mull Leaf-Beds. Arctic Miocene Flora. Disco Island. Lower Miocene of United ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... contained at least three other species of Sequoia, as determined by their remains, one of which, from Spitzbergen, also much resembles the common redwood of California. Another, "which appears to have been the commonest coniferous tree on Disco," was common in England and some other parts of Europe. So the Sequoias, now remarkable for their restricted station and numbers, as well as for their extraordinary size, are of an ancient stock; their ancestors and kindred formed a large part of the forests which flourished ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray |
