"Agora" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... topar con ellos, y los ha lleuado con mucho amor, sin hazer agrauio a nadie. Ello escosa grade, y de mucha importacia: y los de Mexico esta muy vfanos con su descubrimiento, q tienen entedido q seran ellos el coracon del mundo. Trahe eneste nauio de auiso q es venido agora aca, gegibre, canela, oro en poluo, vna arroua de conchas riquissimas de oro, y blancas, joyas de oro, cera, y otras cosas para dar muestra delo que en aquella tierra ay, y muchas bugerias, y otras cosas muy galanas. Y aunque no las traxeran, harto trahian en hauer descubierto y hallado la nauegacion ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair
... wing or the rustle of a leaf, not once only congratulated himself on his good fortune; yet at that hour he might have stood, as so often, listening to the eloquence, the wit, the wisdom, that give proud distinction to the name of Clerkenwell Green. Towards sundown, that modern Agora rang with the voices of orators, swarmed with listeners, with disputants, with mockers, with indifferent loungers. The circle closing about an agnostic lecturer intersected with one gathered for a prayer-meeting; the roar of an enthusiastic total-abstainer blended with the shriek of a Radical ...
— The Nether World • George Gissing
... disparate. [p] Vesti ora este brial, metey o bra[c,]o por aqui, ora esperay. Oo como vem t[a]o real! isto tal me parece bem a mi: ora anday. 35 H[u]s chapins aueis mister de Valen[c,]a, muy fermosos[*], eylos aqui: Agora estais vos molher de parecer. P[o]de os bra[c,]os presumptuosos, isso si, 36 passeayuos muy pomposa, [p] daqui pera ali & de laa por ca, & fantasiay. Agora estais vos fermosa como a rosa, tudo vos ...
— Four Plays of Gil Vicente • Gil Vicente
... perpetual turmoil that, as Dean Funes* says, 'they only stopped when it was absolutely necessary for them to breathe.' Even the overpraised citizens of Athens at the time of Pericles, who must have been in all their ways so like the Athenians of to-day, were not more instant in the Agora or diligent in writing patriots' names on oyster-shells than the noisy mob of half-breed patriots who in the sandy streets of Asuncion were ever agitating, always assembling, and doing everything within their power to show the world the perfect picture of a democratic State. ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... not there," interrupted Euripides—"not in Sparta, but here at home. The demagogues have stirred up the marsh, and therefore we have the pestilence in the Agora, and the pestilence in ...
— Historical Miniatures • August Strindberg
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