"Neb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... about to reply, a man in dark gray, one of the upper-servants who were accepted as social equals by the Akor-Neb nobles, approached the table. He nodded respectfully ...
— Last Enemy • Henry Beam Piper
... pair to be married should stand in line with the cracks in the floor, and not at right angles to them. Omaha, Neb. ...
— Current Superstitions - Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk • Various
... tannin and forms an important article of export. Such are Acacia pycnantha, golden wattle, A. decurrens, tan wattle, and A. dealbata, silver wattle. The pods of Acacia nilotica, under the name of neb-neb, and of ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... paper, man, and make a new pen, with a sharp neb, and fine hair-stroke. Do not slit the quill up too high, it's a wastrife course in your trade, Andrew—they that do not mind corn- pickles, never come to forpits. I have known a learned man write a thousand pages with one quill." [Footnote: A biblical commentary by Gill, which (if the author's memory ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott
... band close to his neb," [mouth or beak] said Dave, and this being done, and the line saved from tangling, the captive untwisted itself, and began to explore the bottom of the boat, a fine thick fellow nearly thirty inches long, and the possibility was that it might escape over the stern, till Dave put a stop ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn
... AGC and -w x CHB. But if the load is distributed to the bracing intersections by rail and cross girders, then the shear at C' will be greatest when the load extends to N, and will have the values w x ADN and -w x NEB. An interesting paper by F.C. Lea, dealing with the determination of stress due to concentrated loads, by the method of influence lines will be found in ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... bonnie neb o' mine, That pecks amang the corn, An' gi'e't to the Duke o' Hamilton To be a ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning. And so, ae morning, siccan a fright as I got! Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing, or some siccan ploy—for the neb o' them's never out o' mischief—and they just got a glisk o' his Honour as he gaed into the wood, and banged aff a gun at him. I out like a jer-falcon, and cried—"Wad they shoot an honest woman's poor innocent bairn?" And ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... end down into a fruit jar or other glass jar. Bait may be placed in the jar if desired, although this is not necessary. —Contributed by Geo. Go McVicker, North Bend, Neb. ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics
... of citizen's clothing and sent off to a mission day school. At first reluctant, he soon became interested, and two years later voluntarily walked 150 miles to attend a larger and better school at Santee, Neb., where he made rapid progress under the veteran missionary educator, Dr. Alfred L. Riggs, and was soon advanced to the preparatory department of Beloit College, Wisconsin. His father had adopted his wife's English name of Eastman, and the ...
— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman |
