"Catherine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all: "Messire, I am only a poor girl; I cannot ride or lead armed men." The vision took no notice of this plea. He became minute in his directions, indicating exactly what she was to do. "Go to Messire de Baudricourt, captain of Vaucouleurs, and he will take you to the King. St. Catherine and St. Margaret will come and help you." Jeanne was overwhelmed by this exactness, by the sensation of receiving direct orders. She cried, weeping and helpless, terrified to the bottom of her soul—What was she that she should do this? a little girl, able to guide nothing but her needle or ...
— Jeanne d'Arc - Her Life And Death • Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant
... four daughters before she had a son; not one of these daughters ever married. They were reared in the greatest pride, and no one was found good enough to marry them. There was Mistress Anne, and Mistress Catherine, and Mistress Elizabeth, and Mistress Jane, for in these old days the title of Miss was ...
— The Fairchild Family • Mary Martha Sherwood
... a tired man. Didn't I tell you, I had a letter from Aunt Catherine yesterday. I have felt no fatigue since. When ...
— Daisy in the Field • Elizabeth Wetherell
... left the farm,[181] to be carried on with his mother; to his second and third sons, Thomas and John, he left L6 13s. 4d. each; to his fourth son, William, L10; to his daughters, Agnes (or Anne) and Catherine, L6 13s. 4d., to be paid on the day of their marriage; and to his youngest daughter, Margaret, L6 13s. 4d. when she was seventeen. Witnessed by Sir William Gilbert, clerk and curate ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes
... Catherine Lewis, who, after passing two years with the Mormons, escaped from Nauvoo, after taking the preliminary degrees of the endowment, says: "The Twelve took Joseph's wives after his death. Kimball and Young took most of them; the daughter of Kimball ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn
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