"Teen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... another force—apparently unrelated—which acted to tie in with the Federal security regulations. The juvenile delinquent gangs had begun to realize the value of science. Teen-age hoodlums armed with homemade pistols were dangerous enough in the Fifties; add aimed rockets and remote-control bombs to their armories, and you have an almost uncontrollable situation. Something had to be done, and various ...
— Damned If You Don't • Gordon Randall Garrett
... over her lovers in garments all of green, With open vest and collars and flowing hair beseen. "What is thy name?" I asked her, and she replied, "I'm she Who burns the hearts of lovers on coals of love and teen." I made my moan unto her of passion and desire; "Upon a rock," she answered, "thy plaints are wasted clean." "Even if thy heart," I told her, "be rock in very deed, Yet hath God made fair water well from ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume II • Anonymous
... not work some just revenge on him That thus hath slain my love? shall not these hands Fire his gates, and make the flame to climb Up to the pinnacles with burning brands, And on his cinders wreak my cruel teen[85]? Be still, fond girl; content thee first to die, This venom'd water shall abridge thy life: [She taketh a vial of poison out of her pocket. This for the same intent provided I, Which can both ease and end this raging strife. Thy father ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... pal' ace four' teen fa' mous ly scul' lion re past' in hal' ing en chant' ed mat' tress char' coal ...
— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools
... three bawbees! Look now; there's thae three bawbees. Weel than, here's twa here, an' there's ane there. Noo, this ane here is equal to that ane there, an' this ither ane here is equal to that ane there too; so that, when they're baith equal to that ane, the teen maun be equal to the tither. A blind bat cud see that ...
— My Man Sandy • J. B. Salmond
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