"Ness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas. From reef and rock and skerry — over headland, ness, and voe — The Coastwise Lights of England watch the ships ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling
... this point Van Ness had been listened to with respect, but at the last word he received such a chorus of jeers and cat calls ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... distinctive and individualistic as fingerprints. If we all look like we're doing the same thing when we read, or listen to music, or hang out in a chatroom, that's because we're not looking closely enough. The shared-ness of our experience is only present at a coarse level of measurement: once you get into really granular observation, there are as many differences in our "shared" experience ...
— Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books • Cory Doctorow
... again, and this time the wistful-ness in her touch crept up to her eyes, mingled with a ...
— That Lass O' Lowrie's - 1877 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... colonel with an exaggeration of port that increased with his inward fear, and a growing thickness of speech,—"I have deferr—I may say poshponed statement o' fack thash my duty ter dishclose ter ye. I did no wish to mar sushine mushal happ'ness, to bligh bud o' promise, to darken conjuglar sky by unpleasht revelashun. Musht be done—by G-d, m'm, musht do it now. The ...
— Tales of the Argonauts • Bret Harte
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