"Quarter-century" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to my sorrow, the labours of a quarter-century, and here I must perforce say with ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... may we hope to measure their diameters? By using, as the man of science must so often do, indirect means when the direct attack fails. Most of the remarkable progress of astronomy during the last quarter-century has resulted from the application of new and ingenious devices borrowed from the physicist. These have multiplied to such a degree that some of our observatories are literally physical laboratories, in which the sun ...
— The New Heavens • George Ellery Hale
... almost invertebrate thing that he once was—this little kicking Maeterlinck (if I may so call it) between the known and the unknown worlds—the mature self-dresser will hardly concern himself. Rather, it may be, will he contemplate the amazing revolution which, in hardly more than a quarter-century, has reversed public opinion, and created a free nation which, no longer regarding a best-dresser with fine democratic contempt, now seeks, with fine democratic unanimity, to be a best-dresser itself. Or perhaps, smiling, he will ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren |
