"Eightfold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shot out to treble the length they had looked hitherto, and came broadside past our palpitating fair, the elastic rowers stretched like greyhounds in a chase, darting forward at each stroke so boldly they seemed flying out of the boats, and surging back as superbly, an eightfold human wave: their nostrils all open, the lips of some pale and glutinous their white teeth all clenched grimly, their young eyes all glowing, their supple bodies swelling, the muscles writhing beneath their jerseys, and the sinews ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... event be abandoned." Mr. Webster had in his own lifetime seen the thirteen colonies grow into thirty powerful States. He had seen three millions of people, enfeebled and impoverished by a long struggle, increased eightfold in number, surrounded by all the comforts, charms, and securities of life. All this spoke to him of the Union and of its priceless blessings. He now heard its advantages discussed, its perpetuity doubted, ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... Truth is The Way. It openeth wide, Plain for all feet to tread, easy and near, The Noble Eightfold Path; it goeth straight ...
— The Light of Asia • Sir Edwin Arnold
... Take-haya-susa-no-wo-no-mikoto, at once taking and changing the young girl into a close-toothed comb, which he stuck into his august hair-bunch, said to the Deities Ashi-nadzu-chi and Te-nadzu-chi: "Do you distil some eightfold refined liquor. Also make a fence round about; in that fence make eight gates; at each gate tie a platform; on each platform put a liquor-vat; and into each vat pour the eightfold refined liquor, and wait." So as ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... the noble eightfold path that mounts From life's low levels to Nirvana's heights. Not by steep grades the strong alone can climb, But by such steps as feeblest limbs may take. He saw that day by day and step by step, By lusts resisted and by evil shunned, By acts ...
— The Dawn and the Day • Henry Thayer Niles |
