"Fryer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saucepans to be washed, although the one round, shallow, sheet-iron "fryer," such as soldiers sometimes use in camp, which she dragged from under a buffalo-skin in the corner, would have been none the worse for a ...
— The Talking Leaves - An Indian Story • William O. Stoddard
... Writing in 1675, the travelled Fryer relates what he saw of the Inquisition at Goa. I take the following from his Letter iv., chapter ii. "Going the next Morning to the Palace-Stairs, we saw their Sessions-House, the bloody Prison of the Inquisition; ...
— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell
... waiting till their patience was almost exhausted, having seen their portmanteaus put into Silas Fryer's cart, set off on foot for ...
— The Rival Crusoes • W.H.G. Kingston
... opened, and sprung up in the height of a man; so burning a time, in the end it converted to the shape of a fiery man[?— This pleasant beast ran about the circle a great while, and, lastly, appeared in the manner of a Gray Fryer, asking Faustus what was his request?" Sigs. A 2, A 3, ed. 1648. Again; "After Doctor Faustus had made his promise to the devill, in the morning betimes he called the spirit before him, and commanded him that he ...
— The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus • Christopher Marlowe
... France, as well as with Spain. For such miserable causes and such miserable creatures are wars sometimes made! But he was destined to do little more mischief in this world. One morning, as he was going out of his house to his carriage, he turned to speak to a certain Colonel FRYER who was with him; and he was violently stabbed with a knife, which the murderer left sticking in his heart. This happened in his hall. He had had angry words up-stairs, just before, with some French gentlemen, who were immediately suspected by his servants, and had ...
— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens |
