"Temp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quand le vaisseau tait en pleine mer, une tempte terrible s'leva, et bientt le vaisseau fut englouti par les vagues, et Yvon se trouva seul dans l'eau: "En avant," rpta-t-il courageusement, et il se mit nager vigoureusement. Il arriva enfin en vue de terre, et aprs avoir ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... waggon train, thar's jest a chance o' their hangin' on its skirts, an' stealin' somethin' from it. Ye heerd in Naketosh o' a young Creole planter, by name Dupray, who's goed wi' Armstrong, an's tuk a big count o' dollars along. Jest the bait to temp Jim Borlasse; an' as for Dick Darke, thar's somethin' ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... fidle amie Dont la main essuya tes yeux? Par qui la douleur endormie S'exhale en rve dans les cieux? Ne suis-je rien? Que la tempte Des passions s'apaise en toi! L'homme n'est plus; renais pote! Je t'aime, Hoffmann! appartiens-moi! Des cendres de ton coeur rchauffe ton gnie. Dans la srnit souris tes douleurs, La Muse adoucira ta souffrance bnie, On est grand ...
— The Tales of Hoffmann - Les contes d'Hoffmann • Book By Jules Barbier; Music By J. Offenbach
... manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man; simplicity, a child; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age; Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted e'en among the great: A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblamed through life, lamented in the end. These are ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... nothin' of the kind, not bein' a fat-head." George apologized. "But wot you could do's this. I 'eard Keggs torkin to the 'ouse-keeper about 'avin' to get in a lot of temp'y waiters to 'elp out for ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... to decide; Tell me for wut the copper-comp'nies hanker, An' I 'll tell you jest where it 's safe to anchor. Fus'ly the Hon'ble B. O. Sawin writes Thet for a spell he could n' sleep o' nights, Puzzlin' which side wuz preudentest to pin to, Which wuz th' ole homestead, which the temp'ry leanto; Et fust he jedged 't would right-side-up his pan To come out ez a 'ridge'nal Union man, "But now," he sez, "I ain't nut quite so fresh; The winnin' horse is goin' to be Secesh; You might, las' spring, hev eas'ly walked the course, 'Fore we contrived to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various
... asked with a touch of irritation in his tone. "There's plenty of heat there—heat enough to melt off the shaft of that high-temp alloy! What the devil's the use of wondering about the heat, Dean? What gets me is this: the shaft has been plugged again. ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin
... irreverent Jake. "I own I wasn't at a temp'rance meetin' las' night, but I was in bed long before you ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace
... al-Salat,"i.e., she pronounced the formula of Intention (Niyat) with out which prayer is not valid, ending with Allaho Akbar—Allah is All-great. Thus she had clothed herself, as it were, in prayer and had retired from the world pro temp. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... is bad to live in, but worse to part from. Sir George, straining his eyes in the darkness, saw the long avenue of elms and the rooks' nests, and the startled birds circling overhead; and at the end of the vista the wide doorway, aed. temp. Jac. 1—saw it all more lucidly than he had seen it since the September morning when he traversed it, a boy of fourteen, with his first gun on his arm. Well, it was gone; but he was Sir George, macaroni and fashionable, arbiter of elections at White's, and great at Almack's, ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... Shenstone. He says that "Greisbrook, whence the family had their name, is a manor in Yorkshire, which, in the reign of Henry III., was in the great House of Mowbray, of whom the Greisbrooks held their lands. Roger de Greisbrook (temp. Henry II.) is mentioned as holding of the fee of Alice, Countess of Augie, or Ewe, daughter of William de Albiney, Earl of Arundel, by Queen Alice, relict of Henry I." Then follow some particulars of various branches ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 • Various |
