"Nye" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said the captain, consulting his memorandum-book, "Roger sold his claim at Nye's Ford for $1,500. Now, le's see. Thar was nigh on $350 ez he admitted to me he lost at poker, and we'll add $50 to that for treating, suppers, and drinks gin'rally—put Roger down for $400. Then there was YOU. Now you spent $250 on your trip to 'Frisco thet summer; then $200 went for ...
— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte
... [Footnote 6: Mr. Nye was an Independent and a distinguished member of the Westminster Assembly. This Exhortation was given to the House of Commons and the "Reverend Divines" of the Westminster Assembly before they took the Solemn ...
— The Covenants And The Covenanters - Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation • Various
... unconscious of the fact before the whole of Oxford. The faces of the audience which packed the place were something wonderful to see; their desire to laugh at a tall, red-faced man who looks like a bucolic Bill Nye struggling into his coat, and then horror at seeing the Chief Justice in his shirt-sleeves, was a terrible effort—and no one would help him, on the principle, I suppose, that the Queen of Spain has no legs. He would have been struggling yet if I had not, after ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis
... Cotton's Keys, &c., pp. 31-33, and Mr. Thomas Goodwin, and Mr. Philip Nye, in their epistle prefixed thereunto, do own this book as being for substance ...
— The Divine Right of Church Government • Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
... Newspaper case did not follow earlier decisions interpreting the act of 1831 and was grounded on historical error. For these reasons it was reversed in Nye v. United States[37] and the theory of constructive contempt based on the "reasonable tendency" rule rejected in a proceeding wherein defendants in a civil suit, by persuasion and the use of liquor, induced a plaintiff feeble in mind and body to ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... point of Benham was its water-course. Twenty years before the war Benham was merely a cluster of frame houses in the valley of the limpid, peaceful river Nye. At that time the inhabitants drank of the Nye taken at a point below the town, for there was a high fall which would have made the drawing of water above less convenient. This they were doing when Selma came to Benham, although every man's hand had been raised against the Nye, which was the nearest, ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... arow Original has h instead of And whan Vertu se the sustau{n}ce of his oost he He prayed all the comons to the feld hem hye Wyth her pety capteyns both lest and moste And wyth his capteyns shold folow redely. For he sayd he knew well {that} vyce was ful nye. And who myght fyrst of {the} feld recouer {the} ce{n}tre Wold kepe out {that} other he shuld ...
— The Assemble of Goddes • Anonymous
... what material the boys were made, in the great heroic age of the west, we give the following, which we find in a recent communication from Major Nye, of Ohio. The scene of adventure was within the present limits of Wood ...
— Heroes and Hunters of the West • Anonymous
... foloweth as we saye in one tenour, distinguyshyng all the oracion wyth small ornamentes both of wordes, and sentences. Cicero vseth thys for the lawe of Manilius, for Aulus Cecinna, for Marcus Marcellus, and moste of all in hys bookes of offices. In this it is fautye to come to the kynd that is nye vnto it, whyche is called dissolute, because it waueth hyther and thyther, as it were wythout senowes and ioyntes, standyng surely in no poynte. And suche an oracion can not cause the hearer to take anye heede, when it goeth so in ...
— A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes • Richard Sherry
... up the said Negro, if in Talbot, shall have Twenty Shillings Reward, if brought home; if at any farther Distance, Four Dollars Reward, and reasonable Charges if brought home, paid by the subscriber living at Nye River. ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... that was brought against him by Grekes / layeth vnto them the lightnes of theyr contrey. This (sayeth Tulli) do I say of the hole nacion of Grekes. I grau[n]t to them that they haue good lernyng / and the knowlege of many sciences. Nor I de- nye nat but that they haue a pleasant and marueylouse swete speche. They are also people of high and excellent quicke wyt / & thereto they be very facundiouse. These & suche other qualities wherein they booste the[m] selfe greatly: I wyll nat repyne agai[n]st it that they bere the maistry ...
— The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke • Leonard Cox
... a good deal; then when the belated audience presently caught the joke he would look up with innocent surprise, as if wondering what they had found to laugh at. Dan Setchell used it before him, Nye and Riley and others use ...
— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... assorted cargo, and was trading on the coast. She filled away again, and stood out; being bound up the coast to San Francisco. The crew of the brig's boat were Sandwich Islanders, but one of them, who spoke a little English, told us that she was the Loriotte, Captain Nye, from Oahu, and was engaged in this trade. She was a lump of a thing—what the sailors call a butter-box. This vessel, as well as the Ayacucho, and others which we afterwards saw engaged in the same trade, have English ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... found By your peers, by your peers, And must die above ground! Look for no pity; Some of our ministry, Whose spir'ts with yours comply, As Owen, Caryl, Nye, (49) For death shall ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... safetie sure (quoth he) From him, that would have forced me to dye? And is the point of death now turnd fro mee, That I may tell this haplesse history? Feare nought: (quoth he) no daunger now is nye. 230 Then shall I you recount a ruefull cace, (Said he) the which with this unlucky eye I late beheld, and had not greater grace[*] Me reft from it, had bene partaker of ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser |
