"Moe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his teeth, his claws, and his eyes as being diabolical beyond human conception. In the meanwhile Mr. Bruin had it all his own way in the mountains, killed a young bull or a fat heifer for his dinner every day or two, chased in pure sport a herd of sheep over a precipice; and as for Lars Moe's bay mare Stella, he nearly finished her, leaving his claw-marks on her flank in a way that spoiled her ...
— Boyhood in Norway • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... this gentleman up to Signior Bobadilla: oh, an my house were the Brazen head now, faith it would e'en cry moe fools yet: you should have some now, would take him to be a gentleman at least; alas, God help the simple, his father's an honest man, a good fishmonger, and so forth: and now doth he creep and wriggle into acquaintance with all the brave gallants about the town, such as my guest is, (oh, ...
— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson
... Moe'chus, adultery personified; one of four sons of Caro (fleshly lust). His brothers were Pornei'us (fornication), Acath'arus and Asel'g[^e]s (lasciviousness). In the battle of Mansoul, Moechus is slain by Agnei'a (wifely chastity), ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... "You hear, Simon: Moe Bergenthal, who sells shirtwaists for you right this minute, can afford to send his ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst
... Warwick came to seek you out, And therefore comes my brother Montague. Attend me, lords. The proud insulting queen, With Clifford and the haught Northumberland, And of their feather many moe proud birds, Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax. He swore consent to your succession, His oath enrolled in the parliament; And now to London all the crew are gone, To frustrate both his oath and what beside May make against the house of Lancaster. Their power, ...
— King Henry VI, Third Part • William Shakespeare [Rolfe edition]
... Later on, as our ability increases, this will be of great value to us. We begin to see, bit by bit, what the author intended. That is the real test of it all. We do not want to find mere jingle in music, we want music that says something. Even a very young child knows that "eenty meenty meiny moe" is not real sense, though it is a pleasant string of sounds to say in ...
— Music Talks with Children • Thomas Tapper
... was his rivall foe, With his owne dagger slaine, He groand, and word spoke never moe, Pierc'd through the ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe |
