"Rudd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (53) Margaret Caroline Rudd was in great notoriety about the year 1776, from the fame of her powers of fascination, which, it was said, had brought a man to the gallows. This man, her lover, was hanged in January, 1776, for forgery, and the fascinating Margaret appeared as evidence against him. Boswell visited ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... Outlined from a figure of a warehouseman rolling a sherry flask into Mr. Rudd's wine-vaults. I added the hat, cloak, and boots in the ...
— The Peace Egg and Other tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... neither of us in very flourishing trim for active correspondence: be assured, however, I participate the feelings you express. Last year has robbed me of Coleridge, of Charles Lamb, James Losh, Rudd, of Trinity, Fleming, just gone, and other schoolfellows and contemporaries. I cannot forget that Shakspeare, who scarcely survived fifty (I am now near the close of my sixty-fifth ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... still leave a boatkeeper and cook aboard. As a usual thing, however, only four boats were expected to be out at once—the captain's, Ben Gibson's (with whom Tom Anderly went as boat-steerer and would really be in charge until Ben learned the ropes) the mate's boat, and Bill Rudd, the carpenter's, boat. The gun forward in the Scarboro's bows, however, was there for a purpose, too, as I found out on the first day we sighted ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster
... she saw it clearly, the shadowy bodies of the beasts and the tips of their trunks distended on the surface like a purple flower. And vaguely, as though it were a memory from a distant life, she recalled hearing the French Ambassador and Baron Rudd discussing the report of an explorer who pretended to have seen these supposed fabulous elephants come out of an African forest and go down under the waters ...
— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post
... man who lives in it an' he's to be trusted. We'd have left the boat an' the things with him, an' we'd have walked the rest of the way, but the creek is so high now that we kin make at least twenty miles more an' tie up at Bill Rudd's place. Thar's no goin' further on the water, 'cause the creek takes a fall of fifteen feet thar, an' this boat is too heavy ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler
... J. H. A. Rudd, the Vicar of Elstow, has most kindly furnished me with an extract from the registers of all the entries relative to Bunyan's family. The register commences in 1641, and has been searched to 1750. It confirms ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan |
