"Grace" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very glad to hear that your election is finally settled, and to say the truth, not sorry that Mr.——has been compelled to do, 'de mauvaise grace', that which he might have done at first in a friendly and handsome manner. However, take no notice of what is passed, and live with him as you used to do before; for, in the intercourse of the world, it is often necessary to seem ignorant ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... great a miracle of grace, the King, transported with joy, renounces Satan and his pomps and his works. He demands instant baptism, and bends over the ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... his intrepidity before a judge was in the Busteed case. The judge had threatened to convict him for contempt. Busteed had apologized, and Brady also, with his matchless grace and courtesy, had tendered Busteed's apology; but the judge still said that he should send him to prison. 'You will, will you?' said Brady; 'I say you will not.' And, citing authority after authority against his power to do so, he dared him to thus stretch ...
— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.
... selling four female slaves to a certain man and taking a bond of him to pay four shekels, the balance of the price, on the second of Kislev, a week later.(595) The interval might be two days only;(596) but sometimes a much longer period of grace was allowed—as much as two months and seven days—although the purchase was taken away ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... rose the figures of Grammar and Rhetoric with their emblems—so excellent in their workmanship and lifelike in attitude that, although mute, the excellence of their sculpture and make-up instructed [the beholder]. I do not describe the grace of their shapes, the beauty of their features, the easy flow of the hair, the undulations of the drapery, spangled with bits of glass, and the other accompaniments of beautiful ornaments and fantasies of art, in order not to weary [my readers] with prolixities. They were significant of the ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various
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