"Shan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to polar in high Tien Shan; subtropical in southwest (Fergana Valley); temperate ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... are mine!" he exclaimed. "It doesn't matter what the police say or think, or do, either—at least, it shan't matter. And—you're not to be anxious I've got a good friend coming from Scotland—Melky told you I'd had two lots of ...
— The Orange-Yellow Diamond • J. S. Fletcher
... all very well to say 'Ay, ay,' and talk about lanterns and daylight," growled Tom Tully; "but I don't like going off and leaving one's work half done. I want to have a go at that chap as fetched me a crack with a handspike, and I shan't feel happy till I have; so now then, ...
— In the King's Name - The Cruise of the "Kestrel" • George Manville Fenn
... and saw the seamed and smoky face of the pew opener, who had been watching her from the lobby, and had crept out after her. She dropped a courtesy, and went on hurriedly, with an anxious look now and then over her shoulder—"Oh, ma'am! we shan't see 'im no more. Our people here—they're very good people, but they don't like to be told the truth. It seems to me as if they knowed it so well they thought as how there was no need for them ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald
... to a convoy, and am comfortably installed, with no work to do, in the house of an old woman who has lent me a candle and writing materials. I shan't be suffering from the cold in the way I have done on previous nights, as I have a roof over me and a fire. What luxury! It's been freezing for several nights, and you feel the frost when you are sleeping in the open. But that is nothing to the three days we ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
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