"Frontlet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time to make a rush for his gun. The idea was a good one; but, alas! it failed in the execution. Caspar's arms were confined between the boulders, and he was unable to fling the jacket adroitly. It readied the frontlet of the bull; but the latter, with a disdainful toss of his head, flung it to one side, and stood fronting his adversary, as watchful of his movements ...
— The Plant Hunters - Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains • Mayne Reid
... the official in control of the mines at the surface. Mr. Dodds is a very competent officer, and has been on duty at that place more than twenty years. From this officer I received a mining cap. This piece of head-wear was turban-shaped, striped, of course, with a leather frontlet, on which was fastened the mining lamp. This lamp, in shape, resembled an ordinary tea-pot, only it was much smaller. In place of the handle was a hook, which fastened to the leather frontlet. The bowl of the lamp contained the oil; a wick passes ...
— The Twin Hells • John N. Reynolds
... we sawe another, that lokyd moch after suche a fashion, at the last came the thyrd. Me. Perauenture thay desyryd to descrybe you. Ogy. But I suspecte another mater. Mene. What was it? Ogygy. There was a certayne theffe that had stole almost all owr ladyes frontlet, and I supposyd that they had me in suspycyon thereof. And therfore whan I was within the chapell I mayd my prayers to our lady after thys fashio. Oh cheffe of all women Mary the mayd, most happy mother, ...
— The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion • Desiderius Erasmus
... after all, going out of doors," Pao-yue observed, "nor will I wear a hat or frontlet, so that all that need be done is to plait a few queues, that's all!" Saying this, he went on to appeal to her in a thousand and one endearing terms, so that Hsiang-yuen had no alternative, but to draw his head nearer ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin |
