"Ev" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or for gold, You could melt ten thousand pimples Into half a dozen dimples, Then your face we might behold, Looking, doubtless, much more snugly, Yet ev'n ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... fought a fight Like this last dim, weird battle of the west. A death-white mist slept over sand and sea: Whereof the chill, to him who breathed it, drew Down with his blood, till all his heart was cold With formless fear; and ev'n on Arthur fell Confusion, since he saw not whom he fought, For friend and foe were shadows in the mist, And friend slew friend not knowing whom he slew; And some had visions out of golden youth, And some ...
— Myths and Legends of All Nations • Various
... believe,' continued the cab-driver, appealing to the crowd, 'would anybody believe as an informer'ud go about in a man's cab, not only takin' down his number, but ev'ry word he says into the bargain' (a light flashed upon Mr. Pickwick—it was ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... "Ev'ry one on board knows there was bad blood 'twixt 'em," put in the mate, "and they come pretty nigh to guessin' the reason for it, too," he added with ...
— Doubloons--and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes
... a fool; By demonstration Ned can show it; Happy could Ned's inverted rule, Prove ev'ry fool to ...
— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
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