"Existence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... petition and the rescript are in existence, and confirm Cellini's veracity in this transaction. See Bianchi, ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
... which, like a child's, must ever bear its trouble to a protecting strength, she looked up at the darkness of the cloudy sky and prayed for the better fortune of the man who had indeed not remembered her existence after the moment he had made her his obeisance. She was too plain and sober a creature to ...
— A Lady of Quality • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... against it, they have been overwhelmed by the current or driven before it; now reduced within limits too narrow for the hunter's state, humanity enjoins us to teach them agriculture and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which alone can enable them to maintain their place in existence and to prepare them in time for that state of society which to bodily comforts adds the improvement of the mind and morals. We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use; we have ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various
... pitifully that it would make your heart bleed to hear. People who were born on a Saturday can see these monsters, and they have described them accurately, so that there can be no doubt whatever about their existence. It is, therefore, a matter of great importance to the peasant to protect his flocks and herds against the ravages of such dangerous vampyres. The way in which he does so is this. On a Saturday morning before sunrise the village drummer gives the signal to put ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... They did not talk much. Thomas's mind had gone back to that morning when he had looked out and seen Daniel Magor at the gate with letters in his hand—that wonderful letter which had so altered and beautified their existence for a time, only to ...
— The Story of Jessie • Mabel Quiller-Couch
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