"Al" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... AL'ARIC I., the king of the Visigoths, a man of noble birth, who, at the end of the 4th and beginning of the 5th century, ravaged Greece, invaded Italy, and took and pillaged Rome; died at Cosenza, in Calabria, in 412, at the early age ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Azara, in his 'Descripcion y Historia del Paraguay', has a similar passage: 'Recibe bien todo Indio silvestre, al estrangero que viene de paz.' ** 'Por lo comun reparten pedazos de este cuerpo, del qual pedazo cozido en mucha agua hacen unas gachas ('fritters') y es fiesta muy celebre para ellos que ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... a Shm, who came to the God-guarded city of Misr al-Khirah—Misr of Mars—and with him was a store of money and merchandize and sumptuous clothing. He hired for himself a room in a caravanserai, and having no slave, he was wont to go forth every day and ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... the strawberry bed next door, and the joyous morning hymns of the little birds, and then, if Lillie had come all at once, 'midst the songs of the birds, a small clear musical voice would be heard, singing (for she made a little song of it)—"Al—lie! Al—lie!" Then Alice would give a jump, and answer, imitating her song, "What—ee! What—ee!" and then the bird outside would sing, "Where's you? Where's you?" and Alice would answer, "Here's I, Here's I!" and that would ...
— Baby Nightcaps • Frances Elizabeth Barrow
... head. "He's a kind o' set man, Andy is—part Irish and part Scotch. He al'ays has anchored here and I reckon he al'ays will. I told him when I bought the land of him he ...
— Uncle William - The Man Who Was Shif'less • Jennette Lee
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