"Screed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... built. Hunger and thirst, and all the educational unrighteousness of the elements must be met, fought, out-marched or out-manoeuvred. I went to school in the Murray Ranges, and carried salt to fluky sheep. Even if this present screed stirred me doubly to action, the salt-carrying was better. The sun and moon and stars overhead, and the big grey or brown plain beneath were for ever instilling knowledge that a city knows not. A city's soot kills ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts
... Mr, Scientist, so wise, Since you "pot liquor" do so raise To nth degree, nutrition size, Send us another screed to praise ...
— American Cookery - November, 1921 • Various
... author of an opera—that is, All but the music and libretto's his: A work renowned, whose formidable name, Linked with his own, repels the assault of fame From the high vantage of a dusty shelf, Secure from all the world except himself;— Who told the tale of "Culture" in a screed That all might understand if some would read;— Master of poesy and lord of prose, Dowered, like a setter, with a double nose; That one for Erato, for Clio this; He flushes both—not his fault if we miss;— Judge of the painter's art, ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce
... credential he could produce was the testimony of his whole life. What better recommendation could anyone require? But vaguely he felt that the unique document would be looked upon as an archaic curiosity of the Eastern waters, a screed traced in ...
— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad
... Scar, v. scaur. Scathe, scaith, damage; v. skaith. Scaud, to scald. Scaul, scold. Scauld, to scold. Scaur, afraid; apt to be scared. Scaur, a jutting rock or bank of earth. Scho, she. Scone, a soft flour cake. Sconner, disgust. Sconner, sicken. Scraichin, calling hoarsely. Screed, a rip, a rent. Screed, to repeat rapidly, to rattle. Scriechin, screeching. Scriegh, skriegh, v. skriegh. Scrievin, careering. Scrimpit, scanty. Scroggie, scroggy, scrubby. Sculdudd'ry, bawdry. See'd, saw. Seisins, freehold possessions. Sel, sel', sell, self. Sell'd, sell't, sold. ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... culture, and I've opened up a shop, Where I'd like ye, gents and ladies, if you're passing by to stop. Come and see my rich assortment of fine literary seed That I'm selling to the writers of full many a modern screed. ...
— Cobwebs from a Library Corner • John Kendrick Bangs
... down to write to my dear recluse, intending at first to write only a few lines, as she had requested me; but my time was too short to write so little. My letter was a screed of four pages, and very likely it said less than her note of ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova • David Widger
... sometimes I div gang to my prayers for a whilie like, but nae for lang, for I'm nae like ane o' them 'at he wad care to hear sayin' a lang screed o' a prayer till 'im. I hae but ae thing to ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... to the library, and on the way remembered Jobson's remark about Ist Kings. With some searching I found a Bible and turned up the passage. It was a long screed about the misdeeds of Solomon, and I read it through without enlightenment. I began to re-read it, and a word ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... answer this screed. Otherwise I shall certainly manage to have some law business that will give me an excuse for calling ...
— The Erie Train Boy • Horatio Alger
... reply to such a screed, but slid down from her perch with the remark that she had "et hearty." A man who had eaten near them in a restaurant had used the expression, and they ...
— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo
... his mother's screed to McDermott, determined that the Irishman should not suspect the part which he had taken in Katrine's affairs, and was rewarded by seeing McDermott return ...
— Katrine • Elinor Macartney Lane
... his story, got nearly through before his ferret eyes circled round to me, then broke off to burst into a screed of the Gaelic as he pointed ...
— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine
... saw to it that the illustrations were so minimized that it became unnecessary to sacrifice his text to accommodate it to the page set apart for it. He read his screed in type with considerable satisfaction, feeling that it was an honest piece of work and that it limned a portrait of Bassett that was vivid and truthful. The editor-in-chief inquired who had written it, ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... no great harm in acting as above; although we should far rather recommend a screed of the Epsoms. A tea-spoonful of Epsom salts in half a pint of warm water, reminds one, somehow or other, of Tims. A small matter works a Cockney. It is not so easy—and that the Cockneys well know—to move the bowels of old Christopher North. We do not believe that a tea-spoonful ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson |
