"Respect" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he takes me one side confidential. "Torchy," says he, "could you assist a poor but deserving citizen to retain the respect ...
— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford
... equal to going to the Dingle again to fetch them, and yet every minute he delayed made the chances of their remaining there more remote. He rather hoped that Reade would think of some way out of it. He had a great respect for Reade's intellect, though he did not always show it. The next day was the day of the Inter-House cross-country race. It was always fixed for the afternoon after Sports Day, a most inconvenient time for it, as everybody who had exerted or over-exerted himself the afternoon ...
— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
... on his ascent in 1888, suggested it as a camping place because the presence of pumice indicated the {p.116} absence of severe winds. It offers none of the conveniences of a camp save a wind-break, and even in that respect no one has ever suffered for want of fresh air. It is highly desirable that a cabin be erected here for the convenience of climbers. Such shelters as the Alpine clubs have built on the high shoulders of many peaks in Switzerland are much needed, not only at Muir, ...
— The Mountain that was 'God' • John H. Williams
... one blow!" and thinking it meant men that the tailor had killed, felt at once more respect for the little fellow. But as he wanted to prove him, he took up a stone and squeezed it so hard that ...
— Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
... embryological work, proving a very good acquaintance of the great scientist—possibly helped by his predecessors—with the facts of ontogeny, and a great advance upon succeeding generations in this respect. ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel
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