"Petitioner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... petitioner, you must be tired," said the Queen, and pointed to a row of carved and inlaid Tyrolese chairs that ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... discoveries to be made in the Ocean Sea is our strongest reason for believing that the pilot's story had been laid before the sovereigns. Christopher's long years of uncertainty were ended; the man's great perseverance had won out at last; and the weary petitioner who, some months before, had ridden doubtingly forth from La Rabida now rode back, bursting with joy, to fall on the good prior's neck and weep out ...
— Christopher Columbus • Mildred Stapley
... know men to be personal and to be changed by petitions to their mercy and entreaties to use their power in certain directions. We believe that God, infinitely greater than man, can be entreated and will use His power for the benefit of the petitioner. It is not unreasonable for men to pray for material and spiritual blessings. While the sphere of prayer may be narrowed in certain directions by what we know of nature's processes, it has been greatly widened in ...
— Studies in the Life of the Christian • Henry T. Sell
... rights" and fair and equal treatment may be meted out to all citizens, by the restriction of rights in all property, real estate included, to the beneficent term of forty-two years. Then shall all men bless your honorable body and be happy. And for this will your petitioner ever pray. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... to address the Court on behalf of the respondent. It was not a long speech, nor was it enriched by any displays of florid rhetoric; it concerned itself exclusively with a rebutment of the arguments of the counsel for the petitioner. ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
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