"Ey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Eye, diffuse and throw themselves out to the Mind. The Prospect is too wide to come within the Compass of a single View: 'tis a gay Confusion of pleasing Objects, too various to be enjoyed but in a general Admiration; and they must be separated, and ey'd distinctly, in order ...
— Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) • Lewis Theobald
... saddle-colored youngster of three, enormously interested in the stranger. He wore whip-cord jodphurs—protruding widely on either side of his plump thighs—and knee high leather riding boots. Plump and smiling, he looked for all the world like a kewpie provided with a kink ey crown and blistered to a rich ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration
... seen the dew-ey'd bloomy haw, When morning gilds the welkin high; Ye 've heard the breeze o' summer blaw, When e'ening steals alang the sky. But brighter far is Jeanie's eye, When we 're amang the braes alane, An' softer is the bosom-sigh Of lovely Jean ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the Eastern clouds with streaks of light. And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels; Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, The day to cheer, and ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... him singularly appealing and engaging; for he was a poet and a romancer, and his name was Robert Louis Stevenson. He used to come to that eyrie on Rincon Hill to chat and to dream; he called it "the most San Francisco-ey part of San Francisco," and so it was. It was the beginning and the end of the first period of social development on the Pacific coast. There is a picture of it, or of the South Park part of it, in Gertrude ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard
... Hafsfjord, in Jadar in Norway, 3 Haffirth-river (Hafsfjarethrara), in the Marshes, 176 Hall-marsh (Skalamyrr), in Skagafirth, 208 Hallwick (Skalavik), in Sweeping's firth 10 Halogaland, now Nordlandene, in Norway, 62 Haramsey, properly Harhamars-ey, now Haramsoe, in South-Mere, in Norway, 45, 50, 51 Hawkdale (Haukadalr), a valley in the Broadfirth-dales, 90 Hawkdale (Haukadalr), a farmstead in Biskupstungr in Arnesthing, 159 Hawkdale-pass (Haukadals-skareth), a mountain road between Hawkdale and Ramfirth, 126 Head, a farm ...
— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
... lort abbut, 'cept that he cum to Pendle a twalmont agoa," replied Ashbead; "boh ey knoas fu' weel that t'eawtcumbling felly robt me ot prettiest lass i' aw Lonkyshiar—aigh, or i' aw Englondshiar, fo' t' matter ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-ey'd despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at ...
— The Hundred Best English Poems • Various |
