"Eld" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... triumphal mornings; its days bound From night, as from a victory. But such A trembling as the birch-tree's to the touch Of winter is an eld, and evening closes round. ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... my head: I sat thinking an hour longer. Reason still whispered me, laying on my shoulder a withered hand, and frostily touching my ear with the chill blue lips of eld. ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte
... mincing maid her mind will then bewray, Her heart-bloud flaming up into her face, Grave matrons will wex wanton and betray Their unresolv'dnesse in their wonted grace; Young boyes and girls would feel a forward spring, And former youth to eld thou ...
— Democritus Platonissans • Henry More
... 'ad a poisoned 'and? Still, this 'e did; to a lot of chaps as 'eld back 'e says—'If you goes to Doctor to be examined I'll go with you,' 'e says—could a man do more? 'I tell you honest,' 'e says, 'that with my poor 'and I'm a man marked down for stayin' at 'ome, worse luck. What would I give,' 'e says, 'to go forth in the pride of 'ealth, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 • Various
... pin drop. They all sat staring at 'im, and then George Hatchard took out 'is handkerchief and 'eld it ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... palaces. And whichsoever way the Prince might look, Another marvel, and another, took His wildered eyes with very wonderment. And holding talk together as they went, The Prince besought his guide to tell him why Of all the many folk that passed them by There was not one that had the looks of eld, Or yet of life's mid-years; for they beheld Only young men and maidens everywhere, Nor ever saw they one that was not fair. Whereat the stripling: "Master, thou hast seen, Belike, the river that doth flow between Flowers and grasses at the city's feet?" And when ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson
... Teacher name the dames of eld and the cavaliers, pity overcame me, and I was well-nigh bewildered. I began, "Poet, willingly would I speak with those two that go together, and seem to be so light upon the wind." And he to me, "Thou shalt ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various
... Exeter Battleby Tring had laboured from boyhood to eld On the Lines of the East and the West, and eke of the North and South; Many Lines had he built and surveyed—important the posts which he held; And the Lords of the Iron Horse were dumb when he opened ...
— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling
... uv Bridge it was, with 'earts for trumps. We was the dummies, sittin' silent there. I knoo the men, like me, was feelin' chumps: Foolin' with cards while this was in the air. It took Doreen to shove us in our place; An' mother 'eld the lot, right ...
— Digger Smith • C. J. Dennis
... gods of the eld be dead, Here are the mountains of azure and snow, Here are the valleys where loves are ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... "'Eld the Helliot belt in Hinjer last year, they say," continued the Cockney. "Good? Not'arf. I wouldn't go an' hinsult the bloke for the price of a pot. No. 'Erbert 'Awker would not. (Chuck us yore button-stick, young 'Enery ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren
... wast thou great and wise, And solemn with exceeding eld, On that proud morn when England's rays, Wet with tempestuous joy, beheld Round her rough coasts the thundering main Strewn with the ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker
... hurricane, several of its ships lost, and the remainder widely separated. The hurricane past, forth from an island harbor stole the Sea Wraith that so many storms had beleaguered. Gray as with eld, lonely as the ark, a haggard ship manned by outcasts, she spread her vampire wings and flitted from her enshadowed anchorage. An hour later, like a vampire still, she hooked herself to a gay galleon and sucked from it life that was cheap and gold that was dear; then descrying other sails, ...
— Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston
... gout, leprosy, and the rheum For ending thee no sooner; Thou hast nor youth, nor age, But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both; For all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
... With Eld thy chain of days is one: The seas are still Homeric seas; Thy skies shall glow with Pindar's sun, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... Carlisle; Beseech the Queen to meet me near its wall On this day fortnight.' Thitherwards thenceforth Swiftlier he passed, while daily from the woods The woodmen flocked, and shepherds from the hills, Concourse still widening. These among there moved A hermit meek as childhood, calm as eld, Long years Saint Cuthbert's friend. Recluse he lived Within a woody isle of that fair lake By Derwent lulled and Greta. Others thronged Round Cuthbert's steps; that hermit stood apart With large dark eyes upon his countenance ...
— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere
... there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner: You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know The superstitious idle-headed eld Received, and did deliver to our age, This tale of Herne the hunter ...
— The Merry Wives of Windsor • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... to war or woo; Now with flaunting flags and streamers—mighty monsters of the deep— Lo the puffing, panting steamers through thy foaming waters sweep; And behold the grain-fields golden, where the bison grazed of eld; See the fanes of forests olden by the ruthless Saxon felled. Plumed pines that spread their shadows ere Columbus spread his sails, Firs that fringed the mossy meadows ere the Mayflower braved the gales, Iron oaks that nourished bruin while the Vikings roamed the main, Crashing fall in ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... confessed. With placid soul he softly spoke: No harsh reply could taunts provoke. He ever loved the good and sage Revered for virtue and for age, And when his martial tasks were o'er Sate listening to their peaceful lore. Wise, modest, pure, he honoured eld, His lips from lying tales withheld; Due reverence to the Brahmans gave, And ruled each passion like a slave. Most tender, prompt at duty's call, Loved by all men he loved them all. Proud of the duties of his race, With spirit meet for Warrior's ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... on board the Discovery from the relief ships, and Scott carried his researches further. If at that time he had had more coal, it is probable that this active explorer would have accomplished even greater things than he did. Wilkes's "Ringgold's Knoll" and "Eld's Peak" were wiped off the map, and nothing was seen of "Cape Hudson," though the Discovery passed well within ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen |
