"And how" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he asked himself whether all his effort had not been in vain. This was the natural inner weakness consequent on his physical state; he gave no outward sign of it. Marmontel, who watched his last hours with enthusiastic affection, says that, "In his company we learned how to live,—and how to die." He lay like Socrates, surrounded by his friends, talking and listening to the last; he astonished them by the eloquence and gravity of his discourse. His latest recorded utterance was, "Fortune may sport with the wisdom of those who ...
— Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France • Edmund Gosse
... by how little life may be sustained and how much nature requires. The gifts of Cerea and water are sufficient nourishment ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
... some three hundred yards above this house, I saw that his breast and arms were scored with long white scars, and asked him what had caused them. I remember well how his face changed as I spoke, from kindliness to the hue of blackest hate, and how he answered speaking to ...
— Montezuma's Daughter • H. Rider Haggard
... enough," Vere replied. "We were only four days in London, and were busy all the time. And how are things here? Now that summer is at hand and the country drying the Dons ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty
... appear, a very little reflection showed that it was not easy to be done, if, indeed, it were practicable. The great distance of Peru required troops to be transported not merely across the ocean, but over the broad extent of the great continent. And how was this to be effected, when the principal posts, the keys of communication with the country, were in the hands of the rebels, while their fleet rode in the Pacific, the mistress of its waters, cutting off all approach to the coast? Even if a Spanish force could ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott
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