"Tic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sleep sound, the dear man; and he needs it, too, because of his sufferings, for he does suffer, I can tell you, and more's the pity. But I'd like to know what a healthy man like him wants to burn his back for, just to get rid of a tic douleureux which troubles him once in two years. However, to come back to our business. I have my neighbor's key; her lodging is just above mine, and in it there's a room adjoining the one where Monsieur Ferragus is, with ...
— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac
... gr[o][z]er s[u:]nde erl[o]st. dar an gedenket, ritter! / e[z] ist iuwer dinc; ir traget die liehten helme / und manegen herten rinc, Dar zuo die vesten schilte / und diu gew[i]hten swert. wolte got, w[ae]r ich / der sigen[u:]nfte wert, 85 s[o] wolte ich n[o]tic man / verdienen r[i]chen solt. joch meine ich niht die huoben / noch der h[e]rren golt: ich wolte selbe kr[o]ne / [e]wecl[i]chen tragen; die m[o:]hte ein solden[ae]re / mit s[i]me sper bejagen. m[o:]ht ich die lieben reise / gevaren [u:]ber s[e], 90 s[o] wolte ...
— A Middle High German Primer - Third Edition • Joseph Wright
... improved under the two succeeding monarchs, have formed the basis for a revival of a remarkable character. The sudden renaissance of Queen Anne or Free Classic architecture is the growth of but fourteen years, and yet all classes of society have been alike filled with aspirations for Queen An-tic houses, and for domestic appliances, and even dresses and garniture, associated with that period. The extremely low art of the last decade of the seventeenth century has become the "high art" of to-day, and bids fair, after outgrowing the eccentricities of plan and detail ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... completed by the shore end party; while much overhauling of the cable in the tanks, and daily drills given to the Signal Corps soldiers in cable telegraphy and the care of the instruments kept those aboard ship busy. Tic—tack, clic—clack, went the little telegraph instrument at one end of the quarter-deck, and clic—clack, tic—tack answered an instrument at the other end, hour after hour through the long, warm mornings, ...
— A Woman's Journey through the Philippines - On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route • Florence Kimball Russel
... geranium—this was their flower-garden. On the wall hung a large colored print of "The Congress of Vienna;" there they had all the kings and emperors at once. A Bornholm* clock, with heavy leaden weights went "tic-tac!" and always too fast; but the old folks said it was better than if it went too slow. They ate their suppers, and the old lamp, as we have said, lay in the armchair close by the warm stove. It was, for the old lamp, as if the whole world was turned upside down. But when the old watchman looked ...
— A Christmas Greeting • Hans Christian Andersen
... said, "in 1826, we put into San Francisco harbor and sent our boats up to San Jose for water and we took goats from some of those islands, too. Oh! I know the coast well enough. We were on our way to the Ar'tic Ocean then, after ...
— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes
... produce their fruit on one-year-old canes, which wood is of no further use. The general way of training them is by tying the tops together, or by training them in the shape of a fan on a south wall, but perhaps the best way is to tic them about equal distances apart round hoops supported by light sticks. Seed may be separated from the fruit, dried, and sown early in February on a gentle hotbed. Prick off into good rich mould, harden off by the middle of May, and plant in rich soil. ...
— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink |
