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More "Blither" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it ready-made, or will have one instantly on the stocks, and proceed to lay its timbers and launch it in your presence. "Let me see," he will say. "Give me a moment. I should have some theory for that." A blither spectacle than the vigour with which he sets about the task, it were hard to fancy. He is possessed by a demoniac energy, welding the elements for his life, and bending ideas, as an athlete bends a horse-shoe, with a visible ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... robbers. A couple of weeks' rest and good feeding had given a healthy glow to his cheek, had brightened his eye, and brought back the native boyishness and brightness to his face. He was stronger, gayer, blither than he had been since the never-to-be-forgotten day when he had closed his dead mother's eyes, and been obliged to fly for his life from his ancestral halls, ere the rapacious scions of the House of York ...
— In the Wars of the Roses - A Story for the Young • Evelyn Everett-Green
... a hardier cause got in, 'Twould hap that it would perish then, bereaved Of any life thereafter. And, moreover, Often will some one in a sudden fit, As if by stroke of lightning, tumble down Before our eyes, and sputter foam, and grunt, Blither, and twist about with sinews taut, Gasp up in starts, and weary out his limbs With tossing round. No marvel, since distract Through frame by ...
— Of The Nature of Things • [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius
... ye upbraid me, An' try your ain love to beguile? For ye are the richest young lady That ever gaid o'er the kirk-stile. Your smile that is blither than ony, The bend o' your cheerfu' e'ebree, An' the sweet blinks o' love there sae bonny, Are five ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... find out, sir. All ended happily, and never had the wedding-bells in the old village church rung out a blither peal than they did at ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... thee, if we fast or dine, We yet shall loosen, line by line, Old ballads, and the blither trill Of our-time singers—for there will Be with us all the Muses nine When ...
— Songs of Friendship • James Whitcomb Riley
... deed thou cravest; Sigurd lay slain on the earth; thou didst stand beside him, and thy face was wondrous pale. Then said I: "Art thou glad, now that I have done thy will?" But thou didst laugh and answer: "Blither were I didst thou, Gunnar, lie there in ...
— The Vikings of Helgeland - The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. • Henrik Ibsen
... out, sir. All ended happily, and never had the wedding-bells in the old village church rung out a blither peal than they did at ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... Smith; 'and now I like to see any one, and especially any young fellow, understand that it's not necessary to talk for talking's sake, and that when you've nothing particular to say, it's better to be quiet and think, than—than just to blither, as ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... is waking as of old, With eyes of blither hazel and hair of brighter gold: For Robin Hood is here again beneath the bursting spray In Sherwood, in Sherwood, about ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various
... the strong spring round him grew Stronger, and all blithe winds that blew Blither, and flowers that flowered anew More glad of sun and air and dew, The shadow lightened on his soul And brightened into death and died Like winter, as the bloom waxed wide From woodside on to riverside And ...
— The Tale of Balen • Algernon Charles Swinburne
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