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"Wand" Quotes from Famous Books

... while the three of us clustered about him, filled with wonder and delight to see the book of many coloured flies, and all the intricacies of preparing the rod and bait. Angel and I were equipped with proper rods baited with greenish May-flies, and The Seraph got a willow wand and line at the end of which dangled an ...

— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

... left us— Left the battle line? Idling, straggling, wand'ring, Heedless of the sign? Hark! the trumpet calls thee! With us heart and hand Raise the Spade and Anchor! Strike ...

— The Kirk on Rutgers Farm • Frederick Bruckbauer

... He's justly treated, as he might have known. And if the wand were a divining one It would have turn'd, within his very hands, Point-blank to ...

— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens

... crissom wand, And she has stroken her troth thereon; She has given it him out at the shot-window, Wi' mony a sad sigh ...

— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various

... now come into a hilly region. John leaped out and gained the top of the steep road long before the post-chaise did. I watched him standing, balancing in his hands the riding-whip which had replaced the everlasting rose-switch, or willow-wand, of his boyhood. His figure was outlined sharply against the sky, his head thrown backward a little, as he gazed, evidently with the keenest zest, on the breezy flat before him. His hair—a little darker than it used to be, but of the true Saxon colour still, and curly as ever—was ...

— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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