"Gree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just neighbour-like,' replied the Covenanter; 'and nae wonder they gree sae weel. Wha wad hae thought the goodly structure of the Kirk of Scotland, built up by our fathers in 1642, wad hae been defaced by carnal ends and, the corruptions of the time;—aye, wha wad hae thought the carved work of the sanctuary ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott
... let us pray that come it may— As come it will, for a' that— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bend the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Its coming yet, for a' that— When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various
... of poor souls met: Gods fools, good Master, Have had some little variance amongst our selves Who should be honestest of us, and which lives Uprightest in his calling: Now, 'cause we thought We ne're should 'gree on't our selves, because Indeed 'tis hard to say: we all dissolv'd, to put it To him that should come next, and that's your Master-ship, Who, I hope, will 'termine it as your mind serves you, Right, and no otherwise we ask it: which? Which does your worship think is he? sweet Master Look ...
— Beggars Bush - From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Vol. 2 of 10) • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... ride; howsomever, as I knows that you can ride, and if you doesn't mind taking my 'ead man,' jerking his elbow at Leather, 'to look arter him, I wouldn't mind 'commodatin' on you, prowided we can 'gree ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... dis cuss' a cross' a gree' an nul' de duct' a dopt' a sleep' con struct' in duct' a loft' es teem' in struct' re but' a non' de cree' in trust' re sult' be long' de gree' at tire' in vite' com port' dis close' en tice' o blige' re port' dis pose' en tire' ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey
... article has different names in different tribes; thus it is called a bian among the Fan, a tarwiz, gree-gree, etc., on other ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... may complain or who will speak with me. It is as though I'd wrought so grievous an offence, No penitence avails myself therefrom to free. Will no one plead my cause with a king, who came to me In sleep and took me back to favour and to gree; But with the break of day to rigour did revert And cast me off from him ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous |
