"As yet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the party to ascend; and a few minutes later the scene of a short while before was being re-enacted on the parapet of this much more important structure. They worked silently but with strenuous haste, for although the heavens as yet gave no sign of the approaching dawn, the sudden comparative coolness of the atmosphere and the twitterings of a few early morning birds told them that it could not now be very far off; indeed they had scarcely finished ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... apprehension to some meetings which must necessarily soon occur, but to which Guy made not the smallest allusion. He had asked, cursorily and generally, after "all my brothers and sisters," and been answered in the same tone; but neither he nor we had as yet mentioned the ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... dear. The very fact that you can discuss him so coolly tells me that your heart isn't seriously involved as yet. Is it?" ...
— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond
... through their midst, his presence scarce affrighted them. He and his might boast of being "war's arbiter's," and lords of the great ocean. They were not lords of that emerald sea stretching between the Sabine River and the Rio Grande. Civilised man had as yet but ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... when Lisa had become somewhat wonted to her new surroundings, 'you are to fold your hands respectfully in your lap and I will teach you things,—things which you in your youth and inexperience have not thought about as yet. The other girls may listen, too, and catch the drippings of my wisdom. I really know little about the education of defective children, but, thank heaven, I can put two and two together, as Susan Nipper said. The general plan will be to train Lisa's hands ...
— Marm Lisa • Kate Douglas Wiggin
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