"Thornless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pessimism and seeing only thornless roses about him, Isagani answered, "Within a short time all the islands are going to be crossed with networks ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... of heart; The roses that I brought From thy dear bowers, and thought To keep, since we must part— Thy thornless roses, sweeter until now, ...
— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor
... releasing myself, I immediately mounted my old Abyssinian hunter, "Tetel," and followed the tracks of the elephants at full speed, accompanied by two of the Latookas, who ran like hounds. Galloping through the green but thornless bush, I soon came in sight of a grand bull elephant, steaming along like a locomotive ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
... Trusty from his shoulder in the presence of the goddess. And Trusty worshipped the goddess, and bravely saluted her, and said: "O Goddess, by the sacrifice of my head may the king live another hundred years and rule a thornless kingdom." ...
— Twenty-two Goblins • Unknown
... tide, wind, and horses, all abate their speed, to linger on such happiness? Does the swarm of loves and graces hovering about them retard their progress by its numbers? Are there so many flowers in their happy path, that they can scarcely move along, without entanglement in thornless roses, ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... are thornless, fair Ruth! you are useful and sweet! But lovers shall pass you to sigh at the feet Of the selfish and idle, for such is man's way; Your lot is to work, and to weep, and to pray. To give much and get little; to toil and to ...
— Three Women • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... and thornless way. It is a toilsome and painful way. It is the way of the cross. It means hardship and struggle and suffering. Such intrenched and ingrained iniquities as now infest our society will not be overcome without conflict. We are not calling you ...
— The Church and Modern Life • Washington Gladden |
