"Petter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... EVANS. It is petter that friends is the sword and end it; and there is also another device in my prain, which peradventure prings goot discretions with it. There is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master George Page, which is ...
— The Merry Wives of Windsor • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... Most nodt mage them too gonceitedt. They mostn't go and feel themselfs petter than those boor millionairss that hadt to ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... a thing, if I hat not moneys to puy it. There iss too much, look you, of doing things with other people's moneys. We haf fought fair, and if we haf peen beaten, it iss no fault of ours. Gif us the power to make terms with London for ourself; if we ton't succeed, I say it iss petter to take our peating like men, than to tie like togs, or hang on to others' coat-tails to make them ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Wassell Weblin, Anthony Read, Frances Woodson, Henry Phillips, 794 Petter Collins, Christopher Reinolds, Edward Mabin, John Maldman, Thomas Collins, George Rushmore, Thomas Spencer, George Clarke, Richard Bartlett, Francis Banks, John Jenkins, Thomas Jones, William Denham, Peter, } Anthony, } Frances, } negroes, Margrett, } John Bennett, Nicholas Skinner, John Atkins, ...
— Colonial Records of Virginia • Various |
