"Bod" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is the regulation relative to the dues legally established by Italis-Baal, the suffete, son of Bod-tanith, son ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould
... is like a Sphaere of Water terminated with an exact surface EFGH, let the lines MF, LB, ID, KH, represent the Rays of the Sun; 'tis manifest, that all the Rayes between LB, and ID, will be reflected by the surface of the Earth BAD, and consequently, the conical space BOD would be dark and obscure; but, say the followers of Kepler, the Rays between MF, and LB, and between ID, and KH, falling on the Atmosphere, are refracted, both at their ingress and egress out of the Atmosphere, nearer towards the Axis of the sphaerical ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... says in cheerful remonstrance, "Oh my dear!" but he is too wise to continue a conversation which would only involve an argument, and perhaps, the loss of his "lee-tel shoot-box at Bod-ge-bee." ...
— Happy-Thought Hall • F. C. Burnand
... he has to pay a woman to nurse his sick wife. . . . This lad that's here,—he's a little grandson o' mine; he's one of my dowter's childer. He brings his meight with him every day, an' sleeps with us. They han bod one bed, yo see. His father hasn't had a stroke o' work sin Christmas. They're badly off. As for us—my husband has four days a week on th' moor,—that's 4s., an' we've 2s. a week to pay out o' that for rent. Yo may guess fro that, heaw we are. He should ha' been workin' on the moor ...
— Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine • Edwin Waugh
... anwyd ar fy mab, Yn rhodd rhowch arno gob ei dad: Rhag bod anwyd ar liw'r cann, Rhoddwch arni bais ...
— Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories • Edited by P. H. Emerson |
