"Denude" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ever compensate him for the haunting fear that on the Last Day he may rise inextricably mingled with thy worthy grandfather? Go, I say, and never venture to approach him any more, or I shall surely act upon this judgment and denude ...
— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall
... providence of heaven would be restored to the possessions of his ancestors—in which case the said Peter Protocol was bound and obliged, like as he bound and obliged himself, by acceptance of these presents, to denude himself of the said lands of Singleside and others, and of all the other effects thereby conveyed (excepting always a proper gratification for his own trouble) to and in favour of the said Henry Bertram ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
... nation seemed to be endowed with an instinct for the beautiful, and with the capacity for producing it in every conceivable form. As we travel through Italy at the present day, when "time, war, pillage, and purchase" have done their worst to denude the country of its treasures, we still marvel at the incomparable and countless beauties stored in every burgh and hamlet. Pacing the picture galleries of Northern Europe, the country seats of English nobles, ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds
... senses in death's sick delay Or seizure of malign vicissitude Can rob this body of honour, or denude This soul of wedding-raiment worn to-day? For lo! even now my lady's lips did play With these my lips such consonant interlude As laurelled Orpheus longed for when he wooed The half-drawn hungering face with ...
— The House of Life • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
... five. I never saw such an ill-behaved brute, yet he intended to be most agreeable. We are very pious at this court, but on occasions like this even an old woman like the Queen is obliged to denude herself like a ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... of approving laughter was our only answer to this speech, while Maurice proceeded to denude himself of ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... may toil, Nature's barriers and bulwarks to defy; No matter how we excavate and spoil, De-forest and denude and waste the soil, We must always leave the mountains looming high; No human effort changes, The horizon-rolling ranges Where the high hills heave ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... soul which it was the business of the great artist to express. His ideal should be a living objectivism, in which the poet should throw himself into those for whom he sings, and denude himself of self, to clothe the collective passions which are blown over the world like a mighty wind. Francoise was all the more keenly conscious of the necessity, inasmuch as she was incapable of such disinterestedness, and always ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland
... the mediaeval monk, is with me—is in me,' tapping on his breast. 'The vices of my nature are now uppermost; innocent pleasures woo me in vain; I long for Paris, for my wallowing in the mire. See,' he would continue, producing a handful of silver, 'I denude myself, I am not to be trusted with the price of a fare. Take it, keep it for me, squander it on deleterious candy, throw it in the deepest of the river—I will homologate your action. Save me from that part of myself which I disown. ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson
... when we find that earthly duties, pursuits, occupations of any kind, affections, pure and beautiful as in themselves they may be, are hindering our following the Master, then, if they are things of which we can denude ourselves, though it be at a distinct sacrifice, we are bound to do so; or else we are not loving the ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren
... is over, and you are able to contemplate, with calm emotion, the untold bliss into which the unfettered spirit has entered, do you not feel as if it were cruel selfishness alone that would denude that sainted pilgrim of his glory, and bring him once more back to earth's cares ...
— Memories of Bethany • John Ross Macduff
... Flanders.[245] Even so, with all these dislocations of the Flemish plans, Pitt and Dundas relied too much upon Austria; and all too late found out that she was a broken reed. The Sardinians, also, lacking due support from the Court of Vienna, were afraid to denude their borders and therefore sent an inadequate contingent, despite the fact that they had promised to place 20,000 troops at the disposal of England free ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose |
