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Rit  v.  obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rit" Quotes from Famous Books



... plaisez aux folles passions 65 Qu'allument dans vos coeurs les vaines fictions, Profanes amateurs de spectacles frivoles, Dont l'oreille s'ennuie au son de mes paroles, Fuyez de mes plaisirs la sainte austrit. Tout respire ici Dieu, la paix, ...
— Esther • Jean Racine

... vie, et la fraicheur des vielles amours prolonges. Il existe un embaumement d'amour. C'est de Daphnis et Chloe que sont faits Philemon et Baucis. Cette vieillesse la, ressemblance du soir avec l'aurore." —VICTOR HUGO: L'homme qui rit. ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... chattering, capers to and fro, goggling his eyes, squeaking, kangaroohopping with outstretched clutching arms, then all at once thrusts his lipless face through the fork of his thighs) Il vient! C'est moi! L'homme qui rit! L'homme primigene! (He whirls round and round with dervish howls) Sieurs et dames, faites vos jeux! (He crouches juggling. Tiny roulette planets fly from his hands.) Les jeux sont faits! (The planets rush together, uttering crepitant cracks) Rien va plus! (The planets, buoyant ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... was wicked, yet his cou[n]tre was famous, and noble: for, the Romaines wer lordes and hed- des ouer all the worlde. The vttermoste Indians, [Fol. xliiij.v] the Ethiopes, the Persians, feared the maiestie and auctho- [Sidenote: Rome.] rite of the Romaines. From Romulus, who was the firste founder, and builder of that Citee: the Romaines bothe had their name of hym, and grew afterward to marueilous pui- saunt roialnes. There was no nacion vnder the ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde

... avec art dans ce nouveau miroir, S'y vit avec plaisir, ou crut ne s'y pas voir. L'avare des premiers rit du tableau fidele D'un avare souvent trace sur son modele; Et mille fois un fat, finement exprime, Meconnut le portrait sur ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin

... a long spell, an' I've talked consider'ble with Westbury folks about it; and there a'n't nobody much, round about here, but what'll stand out agin the Britishers, exceptin' Tucker's folks; they're desp'rit for Church an' King; they tell as ef the Lord gin the king a special license to set up in a big chair an' rewl creation; an' they think it's perticular sin to speak as though he could go 'skew anyhow. Now I believe the Lord lets folks find out what He ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... knows it takes some enterprise to run an oppersition; Ourn's the fust thru-by-daylight train, with all ou'doors for deepot; Yourn goes so slow you'd think 'twuz drawed by a las' cent'ry teapot;— 170 Wal, I gut all on 't paid in gold afore our State seceded, An' done wal, for Confed'rit bonds warn't jest the cheese I needed: Nut but wut they're ez good ez gold, but then it's hard a-breakin' on 'em, An' ignorant folks is ollers sot an' wun't git used to takin' on 'em; They're wuth ez much ez wut ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... No. 2. Compare this sketch with that on PI. LXII, No. 2. Below the two lines of the text there are two more lines: li gchi (giunchi) che ritg le paglucole (pagliucole) chelli ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... base, Si," said McNutt "Joe Wegg tol' me once thet the nabob's earnin's on his money were more'n he could spend ef he lays awake nights a-doin' it. Joe says it keeps pilin' up on him, till sometimes it drives him nigh desp'rit. I hed an idee I'd ask him to shuck off some of it onter me. I could stan' the strain all right, an' ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation • Edith Van Dyne

... rend thee and into the deserts cast thee, that to stay at home and wayfarer an example thou be!" Quoth Dahnash, "O my lady, I will do thy behests, for I know forsure that my mistress is the fairer and the sweeter." So saying the If rit flew away and Maymunah flew with him to guard him. They were absent awhile and presently returned, bearing the young lady, who was clad in a shift of fine Venetian silk, with a double edging of gold and purfled with the most exquisite of embroidery having ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... quod he, 'ye sey me sooth. Ye felen wel your-self that I not lye; Lo, yond he rit!' Quod she, 'Ye, so he dooth!' 'Wel,' quod Pandare, 'as I have told yow thrye, 1285 Lat be youre nyce shame and youre folye, And spek with him in esing of his herte; Lat nycetee not do ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer

... or the slightest little raising of the eyebrows. Then his huge, rounded back would straighten itself, his bull-dog chin would project, and his r's would burr like a kettledrum. When he got as far as, "Ah, monsieur r-r-r-rit!" or "Vous ne me cr-r-r-royez pas donc!" it was quite time to remember that you had a ticket ...
— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle



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