"Ultima Thule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... distance; space &c 180; remoteness, farness^, far- cry to; longinquity^, elongation; offing, background; remote region; removedness^; parallax; reach, span, stride. outpost, outskirt; horizon; aphelion; foreign parts, ultima Thule [Lat.], ne plus ultra [Lat.], antipodes; long range, giant's stride. dispersion &c 73. [units of distance] length &c 200. cosmic distance, light-years. V. be distant &c adj.; extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... it all? Of what consequence was it to Horace that a poor old priest, in the Ultima Thule of the earth, should find a little pleasure in his lines, some eighteen hundred years after his death?" ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan
... incongruous, have introduced local colour into some of their Colonial buildings, not without success. As to this particular Roman tradition, it pursues one with meaningless iteration from the burning sands of Africa to Ultima Thule. Always those four ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas
... Greenland than to Norway; and Greenland is part of America. But in Iceland there were Celtic settlers in the early centuries; and even King Arthur, according to the history of Geoffrey of Monmouth, sailed north to that "Ultima Thule." During the ninth century a Christian community had been established there under certain Irish monks. This early civilization, however, was destined ...
— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson
... strife and unhappiness, Mr. Gleason, as the only alternative, resolved to send his daughter to a boarding-school, before his mansion received its new mistress. Mittie exulted in this arrangement, for a boarding-school was the Ultima Thule of her ambition, and she boasted to her classmates that her father was afraid of her, and that he dared not marry while she was at home. Amiable boast of a child!—especially ...
— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz
... he never indulged in rhetoric or rhodomontade or claptrap, that one would be inclined to think he was beside himself, or had been dining out, like Daniel Webster when he proposed, in the Senate Chamber, to plant our starry banner on the outermost verge, the Ultima Thule, of our disputed territory, heedless of consequences. Both Pierpont and Calhoun certainly forgot the injunction to be "temperate in all things"; and allow me to add, that, in my judgment, it mattered little who was with, or who against them, after they had once set the lance in rest, with a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 - A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics • Various
... sickness and in health; it teaches how to train up your mind even to | | supernal powers. This is backed up by every medical writer, by every | | science, by every casual observer; and last but not the least: it is | | the ultima thule of the ever blessed Bible, the word of the Lord. | | | | It teaches how to quit the use of tobacco without the desire for using | | it, and no medicines used. NATURE RULES if allowed her own way.—Our | | design is only to benefit the human family, therefore we give | | [>] our agents ...
— Vanity, All Is Vanity - A Lecture on Tobacco and its effects • Anonymous |
