"Mitten" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the pit. After a minute, he gave a queer cry, and climbed out again. His mitten smoked as he opened it, ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... red woolen mitten with a leather palm which he had picked up on the ice, and the end of the rope by which the boat had been tied. It had been cut with a sharp knife. "Some one has gone off with the ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn
... gallantry he bowed over that tiny hand, which looked so dainty and white through the delicately transparent black lace mitten, and kissing the tips ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... hand here, then," said Andrew to me. I took off my mitten and gave it him willingly. He looked at the sun, which was shining brightly, and held the ice between it and my hand. I saw a little bright spot appear on my hand; but I thought nothing of that, till, feeling an ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... . . ist der Hauptsache nach ihr Werk.—HAUG, Allgemeine Geschichte, 1841, i. 22. Eine Geschichte der Philosophie in eigentlichen Sinne wurde erst moglich, als man an die Stelle der Philosopher deren Systeme setzte, den inneren Zusammenhang zwischen diesen feststellte und—wie Dilthey sagt—mitten in Wechsel der Philosophien ein siegreiches Fortschreiten zur Wahrheit nachwies. Die Gesammtheit der Philosophie stellt sich also dar als eine geschichtliche Einheit—SAUL, Rundschau, February 1894,307. Warum die Philosophie eine Geschichte habe und haben musse, blieb ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... "Mitten? of course. What do you suppose I care for that? Isn't Louie the best friend I have? Isn't she my only comfort? Doesn't she give magnificent advice to a fellow, and all that? Louie? Why, man alive, it's the only thing I have to look forward to! Of course. Well, ...
— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille
... two companions as mighty as himself were travelling, and entered a curious house for the night; and wandered about in the great house, being frightened at a strange loud noise outside: and how they found in the morning that this house was the mitten of a giant, infinitely greater than themselves; and that what they had taken for a separate chamber in the great house was the thumb of his mitten; and that the strange noise was the snoring of this giant Skrymir, who was asleep close ...
— Feats on the Fiord - The third book in "The Playfellow" • Harriet Martineau
... brilliant company of dancers and promenaders has dwindled down to a few sets, composed of those ladies who had not been asked to dance in the height of the evening, and some sour-looking gentlemen in very tight coats and pants, who had "got the mitten" from their sweethearts at the door, and were desperately trying to do the amiable out of sheer revenge. At length even these disappeared; the saloons were entirely deserted, save by the beautiful mother moonbeam, who slept upon the fragrant ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various
... when I've felt so sorry for the too rich as I felt in that house," said she. She was knitting a gray silk mitten, and ...
— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond |
