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"Moribund" Quotes from Famous Books

... impressionable, had refused to profit by the advice, and now the consequences of his stubbornness were upon him. He had said truly that his literary gift was novelistic and nothing else; and here he was, stranded and desperate, with the moribund book on his hands, and with no chance to write another even if he were so minded, since one can not ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... gate, gives no idea of the true state of things. The ridicule was continuous, searching, and universal. I was the laughing-stock of the neighborhood. Anonymous letters from supposed persons in a moribund condition, offering to guarantee the delivery of their prospective remains in consideration of a small immediate advance, reached me from various quarters. If I went into a hayfield, one laborer would speak to another, ...

— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully

... himself thinking that perhaps Sir Isaac might last for years and years, might even outlive a wife exhausted by nursing. And anyhow to wait for death! To leave the thing one loved in the embrace of the moribund!) ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... forth, Mr. Abbey made a monumental financial fiasco; but his was a heroic effort to galvanize Italian opera, which seemed moribund, into vitality. He showed an honest desire to keep all his promises to the public made when he asked support for his enterprise, and all in all, his administration was signalized by virtues too frequently absent in the doings of operatic managers. His stage sets were uniformly ...

— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... excellent and detailed work on the retinal currents of the frog, has shown how the sign of response is reversed in the moribund condition of ...

— Response in the Living and Non-Living • Jagadis Chunder Bose

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