"Wis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... some of the Western States to disburse money in their sections, sent me out into the Northwest with a sort of roving commission to purchase horses for the use of the army. I went to Madison and Racine, Wis., at which places I bought two hundred horses, which were shipped to St. Louis. At Chicago I bought two hundred more, and as the prices paid at the latter point showed that Illinois was the cheapest market—it at that time producing ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan
... the sons of Phrixus, and Telamon and Augeias; and himself took Hermes' wand; and at once they passed forth from the ship beyond the reeds and the water to dry land, towards the rising ground of the plain. The plain, I wis, is called Circe's; and here in line grow many willows and osiers, on whose topmost branches hang corpses bound with cords. For even now it is an abomination with the Colchians to burn dead men with fire; nor is it lawful to place them in the earth and raise a mound above, but to ...
— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius
... confronted with hir at the tyme."[7] We can claim this renowned empiric not only for the Glendevon district, but in a sense for the Presbytery, since it was alleged against him that he had got his uncanny knowledge "from a wedow woman, named Neane Nikclerith, of threescoir years of age, quha wis sister dochter to Nik Neveding, that notorious infamous witche in Monzie, quha for her sorcerie and witchecraft was brunt fourscoir of yeir since or thereby." Spite of all he had done for the "bestiall," and all the testimonials he had from patients whom he had cured of their "seiknessis" by enchanted ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various
... righteous; Hail, burde yblessed may you bene; Hail, pearl of all perrie the pris; Hail, shadow in each a shower shene; Hail, fairer than that fleur-de-lis, Hail, chere chosen that never n'as chis; Hail, chief chamber of charity; Hail, in woe that ever was wis: You pray for us thy Sone so free! AVE, ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... again like this; Ye shall play no more with the Fauns, I wis, No more in the nymphs' and dryads' playtime Shall echo and answer ...
— Rhymes a la Mode • Andrew Lang
... to the road from our camp to the landing. While standing there I casually noticed a large wall tent at the side of the road, a few steps to my rear. It was closed up, and nobody stirring around it. Suddenly I heard, right over our heads, a frightful "s-s-wis-sh,"—and followed by a loud crash in this tent. Looking around, I saw a big, gaping hole in the wall of the tent, and on the other side got a glimpse of the cause of the disturbance—a big cannon ball ricochetting down the ridge, and hunting further mischief. And ...
— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell
... the pig—the crathur!—till it'd be all ribs like an ould umbrilla with the fright, an' as thin as a greyhound with the runnin' by the marnin; he'd addle the eggs so the cocks an' hens wouldn't know what they wis afther wid the chickens comin' out wid two heads on them, an' twinty-seven legs fore and aft. And you'd start to chase him, an' then it'd be main-sail haul, and away he'd go, you behint him, till you'd landed tail over snout in a ditch, an' he'd be back ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole
... sir," he said, going off to the boat, and grumbling as he went. "If Miss Sheila was here, it would be no going away to Glesca without any things wis you, as if you wass a poor traffelin tailor that hass nothing in the world but a needle and a thimble mirover. And what will the people in Styornoway hef to say, and sa captain of sa steamboat, and Scarlett? I will hef no peace from Scarlett if you wass going away ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various
... fashion thus continues of stilettos worn like this, Men must case their heads in helmets, or ne'er go near girls, I wis. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 • Various
... Baltimore, Md. Plymouth Public Library Plymouth, Mass. Portsmouth Athensum Portsmouth, N.H. Public Library of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio. Public Library of the City of Boston Boston, Mass. Redwood Library Newport, R.I. State Historical Society of Wisconsin Madison, Wis. State Library of Massachusetts Boston, Mass. State Library of New York Albany, N.Y. State Library of Rhode Island Providence, R.I. State Library of Vermont Montpelier, Vt. Williams College Library Williamstown, Mass. Woburn Public Library Woburn, Mass. Yale ...
— Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson • Peter Esprit Radisson
... wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbour that I can, saving myself harmless." I promise thee, Christ will not hear this excuse; for he himself suffered harm for our sakes, and for our salvation was put to extreme death. I wis, if it had pleased him, he might have saved us and never felt pain; but in suffering pains and death he did give us example, and teach us how we should do one for another, as he did for us all; for, as he ...
— Sermons on the Card and Other Discourses • Hugh Latimer
... when the king awoke, I wis No heart was lighter in the land than his; For all the grievous burden of his pains Had fall'n from off his limbs, and in his veins Upleapt the glad new life, and the sick soul Seemed like its body all at once made whole. ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson
... Beyond, Behind: I wis All Gods are haunted, and there clings, As hound behind fled sheep, the things Beyond the Universe's ken: Gods haunt the Half-Gods, Half-Gods men, And Man the brute. Gods, born of Night, Feel a blacker appetite Gape ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 • Various
... cared muckle for that camsterie goat o' Ringan's, but he wis gey useful the nicht there's no denyin', whilst as for auld cuddy, dod! but he was in fell voice, an' cam in punctual as the precentor.' The Reverend Alexander Macgregor thrust out an arm on high, turned ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease
... some idea of what Roman Catholicism will do if she ever has the power, we quote an article which appeared in a Catholic journal known as "The Catholic Citizen," of Milwaukee, Wis. ...
— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg
... increase the total to more than 7,000 tons. Hemp is now grown outside of Kentucky in the vicinity of McGuffey, east of Lima, Ohio; around Nappanee, Elkhart County, and near Pierceton, in Kosciusko County, Ind.; about Waupun and Brandon, Wis.; and at ...
— Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material - United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 404 • Lyster H. Dewey and Jason L. Merrill
... Minerva chose the Owl, That bird of solemn phiz, That truly awful-looking fowl, To represent her wis- Dom, little recked the goddess of The time when she would howl To see a Peanut set on end, ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn
... encountered; Dale eating heaps of shrimps and drinking cup after cup of tea. The wind blew sand against the glass front of the hall—the smell of the sea mingled with the smell of the shrimps—and they were absolutely happy. But when all felt replete the boy began to cry, and soon howled. "I wis' I lived here always, yes, ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... I wis not whether I shut the casement or no, for ere man might count ten was I in the Queen's antechamber, and shaking of Dame Elizabeth by the shoulders. But, good lack, she took it as easy as might be. She was alway one to take matters easy, Dame ...
— In Convent Walls - The Story of the Despensers • Emily Sarah Holt
... my sweet Prince, hearty good morrow; This greeting well becomes us, marry does it, Better, i'wis, than strife and jangling. Now can I love ye; will ye to the sheriffs? Your brother Richard ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... old, As Prophet Micah has foretold; 'Tis the Lord Jesus Christ, I wis, Who of you all the ...
— Rampolli • George MacDonald
... BAKER, of Racine, Wis. "just such knowledge as a suffering world needs, to enlighten, develop, and ennoble the minds of ...
— The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses • P. R. Kincaid
... to coin a proper word to express what comes to us through intuition. The old English word "wisdom" originally did. The old verb "wis" was meant what a man knew without being told it, as "ken" meant knowledge by experience. Try and prove by reason that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, or that a part can never be greater ...
— Ancient and Modern Physics • Thomas E. Willson
... would ever remain on it; and owing to this a sickness came on him, and he pined away during the remainder of his life, and of this he died.) Drem the son of Dremidyd (when the gnat arose in the morning with the sun, Drem could see it from Gelli Wis in Cornwall as far off as Pen Blathaon in North Britain.) And Eidol the son of Ner, and Glwyddyn Saer (who built Ehangwen, Arthur's hall.) Henwas and Henwyneb, (an old companion unto Arthur). Gwallgoyc another. (When ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... not,' saith the angel; 'worschipe thou God.' Wherefore, good friends, ye may see hence how foolish are they who do worship unto the blessed angels: and how grievous would be the same unto those good spirits of God if they did knowledge it. Whether or no they be witting of such matters, I wis not, for this Book saith nought thereupon; but ye see, friends, that if they wit it, it doth anger them; and if they wit it not, what are ye the better for praying unto them? Moreover, meseemeth for the same reason, ...
— Mistress Margery • Emily Sarah Holt
... after that. He could not very well keep us together; being the least one in the family, I became a perfect wild rover. At last I left Little Traverse when about 13 or 14 years age. I went to Green Bay, Wis., with the expectation of living with an older sister who had married a Scotchman named Gibson and had gone there to make a home somewhere in Green Bay. I found them, but I did not stay with them ...
— History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan • Andrew J. Blackbird
... objects strike is best seen when they fall outside of the tornado's path, since the work done by the missile is not then disturbed by the general destructive force of the storm. Thus, near Racine, Wis., I have known an ordinary fence rail, slightly sharpened on one end, to be driven against a young tree like a spear and pierce it several feet. The velocity of the rail must have been something enormous, or otherwise ...
— The Jungle Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis
... mean treeck!" he was shouting. "I don'd do de harm wis no mans. I tend mine business, I buy me mine clothes. De mans wass do dees treeck, he buy me new clothes—you bet you! ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower
... the 'oh!' in Ohio!" continued Fred. "I'm running mate to Colonel Cody, and I've ridden herd on half the cows in Hocuspocus County, Wis.! I can sing The Star-Spangled Banner with my head under water, and eat a chain of frankforts two links a minute! I'm the riproaring original two-gun man from Tabascoville, and any gink who doubts it has no time to say ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy
... the Chippewas of Fond du Lac, Wis., buried on scaffolds, inclosing the corpse in a box. The narrative ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow
... Forces. A topical outline with bibliography. Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association, Educational Committee. Madison, Wis., 1915. ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... I am sad to say That young men now and then betray: Thy lover, I wis, has thy trust betray'd, For he presently woos a witching maid: Her eyes are blue, and, I tell thee this, She has tempting lips that he fain would kiss; But courage, my child, thou mayst yet discover A clue to the ...
— London Lyrics • Frederick Locker
... Tailor sat hearkening to their words and melting in his skin; but at last the wife burst out laughing until she fell upon her back and her husband asked her, "Whereat this merriment?" Answered she, "I make mock of thee for that thou art wanting in wits and wis.dom." Quoth he, "Wherefore?" and quoth she, "O my lord, had I a lover and had he been with me should I have told aught of him to thee? Nay; I said in my mind, 'Do such and such with the Captain and let's see whether he will believe or ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... the midst a little door there is, Whereon a board that doth congratulate With painted letters, red as blood I wis, Thus written, "CHILDREN TAKEN IN TO BATE": And oft, indeed, the inward of that gate, Most ventriloque, doth utter tender squeak, And moans of infants that bemoan their fate, In midst of sounds of Latin, French, and Greek, Which, ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... No light,—no air,—no victuals,—no drink!— And that maiden's lip, Which was made to sip, Should here grow wither'd and dry as a chip! —That wandering glance and furtive kiss, Exceedingly naughty, and wrong, I wis, Should yet be considered so much amiss As to call for a sentence severe as this!— And I said to myself, as I heard with a sigh The poor lone victim's stifled cry, "Well, I can't understand How any man's hand COULD wall up that hole in ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... Mucklewrath, who had begun to recover from her hysterics, whimpered forth, 'She wadna say naething against what the minister proposed; he was e'en ower gude for his trade, and she hoped to see him wi' a dainty decent bishop's gown on his back; a comelier sight than your Geneva cloaks and bands, I wis.' ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott
... Varius, No craven heart was his: 'To Pollmen and to Wranglers 'Death comes but once, I wis. 'And how can man live better, 'Or die with more renown, 'Than fighting against Progress 'For the ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
... flickered from her eyes. "Gentle and good in knightliest guise And meet for quest of strange emprise Thou hast here approved thee: yet not wise To keep the sword from me, I wis. For with it thou shalt surely slay Of all that look upon the day The man best loved of thee, and lay Thine ...
— The Tale of Balen • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... seldom introduced a more popular hero than Dave Porter. He is a typical boy, manly, brave, always ready for a good time if it can be obtained in an honorable way."—Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis. ...
— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
... Therefore I hope[A] he was God-loth. A monk it herd of Swines-heued, And of this wordes he was adred, He went hym to his fere, And seyd to hem in this manner; "The king has made a sori oth, That he schal with a white lof Fede al Inglonde, and with a spand, Y wis it were a sori saut; And better is that we die to, Than al Inglond be so wo. Ye schul for me belles ring, And after wordes rede and sing; So helpe you God, heven king, Granteth me alle now mill asking, And Ichim wil with puseoun slo, Ne schal ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... Wis.—There are no precise proportions observed in making the coal-tar and gravel walks of which you speak. The aim is to saturate the gravel with the hot tar without surplus. The interstices of the gravel are simply to be filled, and the amount ...
— Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 • Various
... on the rocky brow, Which looks on sea-girt Cannes, I wis, But wouldn't like to sit there now, Unless 'twere warmer than it is; I went to Cannes the other day, But found it ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... faith he gain'd, I do not wis; I know, in every case like this, Each claims the credit of his bliss, And with a heart ingrate ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... home, I wis. Leave your family bacon frying, Leave your wash and dishes drying, Leave your little children crying; Join your husband, near or far, At the club or corner bar, For the court has taught us this: "Home is where ...
— Are Women People? • Alice Duer Miller
... spoke, First mopping brow and cheek, where still, for one that budged, Another bead broke fresh: "What Judge, that ever judged Since first the world began, judged such a case as this? Why, Master Bratts, long since, folk smelt you out, I wis! I had my doubts, i' faith, each time you played the fox Convicting geese of crime in yonder witness-box— Yea, much did I misdoubt, the thief that stole her eggs Was hardly goosey's self at Reynard's game, i' feggs! Yet thus much was to praise—you ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... of December 1857, it began to rain and rained for three days as if the heavens had opened. The river was frozen and the sleighing had been fine. After this rain there was a foot of water on the ice. I was on my way to Fond du Lac, Wis. to get insurance on my store that had burned. You can imagine what the roads leading from St. Paul to Hastings were. It took us a whole day to make that twenty mile trip, four stage ...
— Old Rail Fence Corners - The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History • Various
... wis, And roses twain, A red rose and a white, Stoop in the blossom, bee, and kiss A ...
— Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes - Volume II. • Walter de la Mare
... in air, And balconies hanging here and there, And signal lanterns and flags afloat, And eight round towers, like those that frown From some old castle, looking down Upon the drawbridge and the moat, And he said, with a smile, "Our ship, I wis, Shall be of another ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck
... :NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ /n./ [acronym; the 'Network Window System'] The road not taken in window systems, an elegant {{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... speaks of it as one science: "Wisdom gave him the knowledge [scientiam] of holy things" (Wis. 10:10). ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... furiously behind. They spurred amain, their steeds were white: And once we crossed the shade of night. As sure as Heaven shall rescue me, I have no thought what men they be; 90 Nor do I know how long it is (For I have lain entranced I wis) ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... paid that goodly price, Honour, truth, courage, all, to have his vice: The which forsook him when those fair things fled; For though my body hath lain in his bed, My heart abhors it. And now in truth I wis My lord's true heart is where my own heart is, The two together welded and made whole; And I will go to him and give my soul And shamed and faded body to his nod, To spurn or take; and he shall be my God." ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett
... my shoulder said, "I am sure you deal me all the blame For those sharp smarts and red; But meet me, dearest, to-morrow night, In the churchyard at the moon's half-height, And so strange a kiss Shall be mine, I wis, That you'll cease to know If the wounds you show Be there ...
— Moments of Vision • Thomas Hardy
... an old woman in her nurserie, who in the winter nights would put vs forth many prety ridles, whereof this is one: I haue a thing and rough it is And in the midst a hole I wis: There came a yong man with his ginne, And he put it a ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham
... wis me, true, bot I has moche not ver' far off. I bees go just now to seek for ivory, and ebony, and ...
— The Gorilla Hunters • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Od, lassie, I wis thinkin' lang," he began wearily as soon as he realized her apparition. Baubie did not wait for him to finish: with a peremptory nod she signified her will, and he turned round and followed her a little way down Hanover street. Then Baubie selected a flight of steps leading to a basement store, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various
... settlements, and the Jebel Harb, where they feed their camels. They number some twenty-five to thirty tents, boasting that they have hundreds; and, as will appear, their Shaykh, Hasan el-'Ukbi, amuses himself by occasionally attacking and plundering the wretched Maknwis, or people of Makn, a tribe weaker ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... fail to notice the public sale ad. of Mr. Wm. Yule, of Somers, Wis., who will, on the 19th day of March, disperse his entire herd of thoroughbred Short-horn cattle. The herd numbers forty head, and is the opening sale of the season, and will be one of the most attractive ones of the year. ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various
... Lord, we look to once for all, Is the Lord we should look at, all at once: He knows not to vary, saith Saint Paul, Nor the shadow of turning, for the nonce. See him no other than as he is! Give both the infinitudes their due— Infinite mercy, but, I wis, As infinite a ...
— Dramatic Romances • Robert Browning
... time I was in Africa, through wet, heat, and long, long walking. They were in good condition when I gave them away finally, and had not started a stitch. They were made by that excellent craftsman, A. A. Cutter, of Eau Claire, Wis., and he deserves and is entirely welcome to this puff. Needless to remark, I have received no especial favours ...
— The Land of Footprints • Stewart Edward White
... mounted the stool, and tied up the rope to the ring in the wall in his usual manner, that it might be out of the reach of the school weans. "But," said he, as he came down, "I needna fash; for after this day little care I wha rings the bell; since it's to be consecrat to the wantonings o' prelacy, I wis the tongue were out o' its mouth and its head cracket, rather than that I should live to see't in the service of Baal ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt
... or thrice about her neck, and they accompt a jolly ornament; and sure thus attired, with some variety of feathers and flowers stuck in their haires, they seeme as debonaire quaynt, and well pleased as (I wis) a daughter of the howse of Austria behune [decked] with all her jewells; likewise her mayd fetcht her a mantell, which, they call puttawus, which is like a side cloak, made of blew feathers, so arteficyally and thick sewed togither, that it seemed like a deepe purple satten, and is very ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... to see you, but I wis gettin' weary waitin' in this damp hole, an' the Cornel, he'll be wonderin' ...
— The Black Colonel • James Milne
... The Janesville (Wis.) Gazette, at the close of an article on the proposed amendment, speaks thus of the effect of the movement, ...
— The United States in the Light of Prophecy • Uriah Smith
... how gray and green The damsels dwell, how sad their teen; In Camelot, how green and gray The melancholy poplars sway. I wis I wot not what they mean, Or wherefore, passionate and lean, The maidens ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams
... his rate of pension was increased. In 1877 he appears to have applied to have his pension again increased. It is alleged that upon such application he was directed to appear before an examining board or a surgeon at Green Bay, Wis., for examination, and in returning to his home from that place on the 7th day of September, 1877, he fell from the cars and was killed, his remains having been found on the track ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland
... PRESSURE.—There was a remarkable occurrence at the mills of the Combined Locks Paper Company at Combined Locks, Wis., on Saturday. From some unknown cause there was an upheaval of rock upon which the mills are located, throwing the mill walls out of place, cracking a great wall of stone and cement twenty feet thick and making ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
... of supernaturally infused moral virtues is intimated in Wis. VIII, 7: "And if a man love justice: her labors have great virtues; for she teacheth temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life."(1121) ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle
... in the mound against which the house was built, he found, to his utter dismay, that Denis had made his escape by an artificial passage, scooped out of it to secure themselves a retreat in case of surprise or detection. It opened behind the house among a clump of black-thorn and brushwood, and wis covered "with green turf in such a manner as to escape the notice of all who were not acquainted with the secret. Meehan's face on his return was worked up ...
— The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh • William Carleton
... strong enow, I wis; we have done our best for him,' responded Hob, while Hal stood shy and shamefaced; but there was something about his bearing that made Sir Lancelot observe, 'Ay, ay, he shows what he comes of more than his mother made me fear. Only thou ...
— The Herd Boy and His Hermit • Charlotte M. Yonge
... was night; and the lamps were beginning to gleam Through the long linden-trees, folded each in his dream, From that building which looks like a temple... and is The Temple of—Health? Nay, but enter! I wis That never the rosy-hued deity knew One votary out of that sallow-cheek'd crew Of Courlanders, Wallacs, Greeks, affable Russians, Explosive Parisians, potato-faced Prussians; Jews—Hamburghers chiefly;—pure patriots,—Suabians;— "Cappadocians and Elamites, Cretes and Arabians, And ...
— Lucile • Owen Meredith
... FOR BURNS.—Dr. Searles, of Warsaw, Wis., reports the immediate relief from pain in severe burns and scalds by the application of a poultice of ...
— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs
... "If he touch me wis his hand I will keel him. We must fight like gentlemen or else I keel him when he ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... celebration of Rowe, Franklin County, Mass. Like Heath, the town was incorporated in February, 1785. The historical address was by Hon. Silas Bullard of Menasha, Wis. ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various
... hast sent into my hand, And of riches great array. Therefore of all that I can win To give thee tithe I will begin, When I the city soon come in, And share with thee my prey. Melchisedec, that here king is And God's priest also, I wis, The tithe I will give him of this, As just is, what I do. God who has sent me victory O'er four kings graciously, With him my spoil share will I, The city, when I ...
— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous
... from the thumbscrew and the boot you bore me like the wind; And while I have the life you saved, on your sleek flank, I swear, Episcopalian rowel shall never ruffle hair! Though sword to wield they've left me none—yet Wallace wight I wis, Good battle did, on Irvine side, wi' waur ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis
... may be seen the interior construction of the steam turbine built by Allis-Chalmers Co., of Milwaukee, Wis., which is, in general, the same as the well-known Parsons type. This is a plan view showing the rotor resting in position in the lower half of ...
— Steam Turbines - A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of - the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers • Hubert E. Collins
... were within my power, I wis, To do you greater curtesie than this; But what we cannot by our deeds expresse In heart we wish, to ease ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... corrects and governs man. Men may pardon, but this divine Principle alone reforms the sinner. God is not separate from the wis- 6:6 dom He bestows. The talents He gives we must improve. Calling on Him to forgive our work badly done or left undone, implies the vain supposition 6:9 that we have nothing to do but to ask pardon, and that afterwards we shall be free to ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... Thus ends the talking of the monk, And Robin Hood i-wis; God, that is ever a crowned king, Bring us ...
— Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series • Frank Sidgwick
... countree. A full fair game there was upset, A white bull up i-pight; A great cours-er with saddle and bridle, With gold burn-ished full bright; A pair of gloves, a red gold ring, A pipe of wine, in good fay: What man beareth him best, i-wis, The prize shall ...
— A Bundle of Ballads • Various
... Born in Kalamazoo, Mich., 1887. Educated in public and high schools, Appleton, Wis. Began as reporter on Appleton Daily Crescent at seventeen. Employed on Milwaukee Journal and Chicago Tribune; contributor to magazines since 1910. First short story, "The Homely Heroine," Everybody's Magazine, November, ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... the eunuch, "Where is the bird? Bring it to me, that I may look upon it; for, by Allah, 'tis beautiful!" So the eunuch brought the cage and set it between the hands of the King, who looked and seeing the food untouched, said, "By Allah, I wis not what it will eat, that I may nourish it!" Then he called for food and they laid the tables and the King ate. Now when the bird saw the flesh and meats and fruits and sweet meats, he ate of all that was upon the trays before the King, whereat the Sovran ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... J. The Social Anatomy of an Agricultural Community. Madison, Wis., 1915. (Agricultural experiment station of the University of Wisconsin. Research Bulletin 34.) [See also Rural ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... one.] If my hands were smitten off, I can steal with my teeth; For ye know well, there is craft in daubing[42]: I can look in a man's face and pick his purse, And tell new tidings that was never true, i-wis, For my hood is all lined ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne
... relative when it comes to marauding other birds' nests and destroying their young. With all his vices, however, intemperance cannot be attributed to him, in spite of the name given him by the Adirondack lumbermen and guides. "Whisky John" is a purely innocent corruption of "Wis-ka-tjon," as the Indians call this bird that haunts their camps and familiarly enters their wigwams. The numerous popular names by which the Canada jays are known are admirably accounted for by Mr. Hardy in a bulletin issued by ...
— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan
... hear of my going on to Salt Lake City, for he said there must be provisions enough in the party and in the morning we were able to buy flour and bacon of John Philips of Mineral Point Wis. and of Wm. Philips his brother. I think we got a hundred pounds of flour and a quantity of bacon and some other things. I had some money which I had received for my horse sold to Dallas, but as the others had none I paid for it all, and told Hazelrig to take the ponies and go back to camp with ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly
... Jesus hat kein trumeter,[18] Blind und lam sind sin trabanten. Und die in ein sun gottes erkanten, Das warend schlecht einvaltig lt; 55 Die pfaffen schatztend in gar nt Und widerstrebtend im alle zit, So straft er sie umb iren git[19] Und ander sntlich wis und berden.[20] Er kond nie eins mit inen werden. 60 Darumb sie in allwegen verstiessend Und z[uo]letst am krtz ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... burning questions, good my lord, Such as may kindle fagots, well I wis. Your Gospel not denies our older Word, But in a way completes and betters this. The Law of Love shall supersede the sword, So runs the promise, but the facts I miss. Already needs this wretched generation, A voice divine—a new, ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. II. (of II.), Jewish Poems: Translations • Emma Lazarus
... my melancholy duty to inform you that the Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Postmaster-General, and lately a Senator of the United States, died yesterday at Kenosha, Wis., at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. By reason of this afflicting event the President directs that the Executive Departments of the Government and the offices dependent thereon throughout the country will be careful to manifest by all customary and appropriate observances due honor to the ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 8: Chester A. Arthur • James D. Richardson
... to a man—are giving the Chief Mate trouble, and it is only when the gangway is hauled ashore that anything can be done. The cook, lying as he fell over his sailor bag, sings, "'t wis ye'r vice, ma gen-tul Merry!" in as many keys as there are points in the compass, drunkenly indifferent to the farewells of a sad-faced woman, standing on the quayside with a baby in her arms. Riot and disorder is the way of ...
— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone
... quarters in somnambulism; Round the red anvils you might see them stand Like Cyclopses in Vulcan's sooty abysm, Beating their swords to ploughshares;—in a band 645 The gaolers sent those of the liberal schism Free through the streets of Memphis, much, I wis, To ...
— The Witch of Atlas • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... are, in the main, good; but we should like to know his authority for saying that pench means "the hole in a bench by which it was taken up,"—that "descant" means "look askant on,"—and that "I wis" is equivalent to "I surmise, imagine," which it surely is not in the passage to which his note is appended. On page 9, Vol. I., we read ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... affaire wis ze monstaire balloon of ze rouge color!" he cried, as he alighted from his monoplane while an assistant filled the gasolene tank. "I will in circles go around you, up and down, zis side zen ze ozzer, and presto! I am back at ze starting place, before you have begun. Zen charity shall ...
— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton
... in Brooklyn, Sept. 9, 1878. Her young girlhood was spent in Rochester, N.Y., where her father, Algernon S. Crapsey, was rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. After preparatory work in Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis., she entered Vassar College, graduating, as a Phi Beta Kappa, in 1901. After two years of teaching at Kemper Hall, Miss Crapsey went to Italy and became a student at the School of Archaeology in ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... Estramarin, Planting his lance his heart within, Through shivered shield and hauberk torn. The Saracen to earth was borne Amid a thousand of his train. Thus ten of the heathen twelve are slain; But two are left alive I wis— Chernubles ...
— The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga - With Introductions And Notes • Various
... a negro slave of Dr. Emerson, a surgeon in the United States Army, then stationed in Missouri. Dr. Emerson took Scott with him when, in 1834, he moved to Illinois, a free state, and subsequently to Fort Snelling, Wis. This territory, being north of 36 degrees and 30 minutes, was free soil under the Missouri Compromise of 1820. At Fort Snelling, Scott married a colored woman who had also been taken as a slave from Missouri. When ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... the Knyght, 'good Sir, no more of this; That ye have said is right ynough, I wis, And mokell more; for little heaviness Is right enough for much folk, as I guesse. I say, for me, it is a great disease, Whereas men have been in wealth and ease, To heare of their sudden fall, alas! And the contrary ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various
... alone, alas the hard stond, Full cruelly by kinds ordinance Constrained is, and by statutes bound, And debarred from all such pleasance: What meaneth this, what is this pretence Of laws, I wis, against all right of kinde Without a cause, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... The Catholic Citizen, Milwaukee, Wis., has entered upon its sixteenth year. We are pleased to see it is well sustained, as it deserves to be. ...
— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 • Various
... appointment was Elgin, Ill., and, the following year, Watertown, Wis. In connection with the last named, we shall have occasion to refer to his labors in a subsequent chapter. At the close of his year at Watertown the charge was divided, and in 1840, he was appointed to ...
— Thirty Years in the Itinerancy • Wesson Gage Miller
... case against this theatrical agent was pending, these girls, who were waiting to testify, were taken out of the city and secreted in Milwaukee, Wis., where after several weeks' hunt they were finally found and brought back to Chicago, and afterwards testified in the court ...
— Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - War on the White Slave Trade • Various
... now thou mayst well leren learn. What sorrow have that children beren, they have; bear. What sorrow it is with childe gon." to go. "Sorrow, I wis! I can thee tell! But it be the pain of hell except. ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald
... then the page he went, Another while he ranne; Tull he had oretaken king Estmere, I wis, he never blanne. ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols
... alas! Turns silver-gilt the golden mass Of flowing hair, and pales, I wis, The rose that deepened with that kiss— The ...
— Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems • Thomas Runciman
... the twentieth-century woman's dress | |was voiced at the Ninth International Purity | |Congress by Rev. Albion Smith, Madison, Wis., who | |spoke on "Spirit Rule vs. Animal Rule for Men and ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... Who so doth shine that through her splendid light, The pilgrim spirit upon her doth gaze. He sees her such, that dark his words I find— When he reports, his speech so subtle is Unto the grieving heart which makes him tell; But of that gentle one he speaks, I wis, Since oft he bringeth Beatrice to mind, So that, O ladies dear, I ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various
... represents, in perspective and in section, an improved door bolt, recently patented by Mr. Thomas Hoesly, of New Glaras, Wis. ...
— Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 • Various
... near Milwaukee, Wis., said to occur there in immense quantities underlying peat, contained, by ...
— Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel • Samuel William Johnson
... St., Providence, R. I.; Mrs. J. W. Renshaw, Second Vice-President, Coffeeville, Miss.; William J. Dowdell, Secretary, 2428 East 66th St., Cleveland, Ohio; or Edward F. Daas, Official Editor, 1717 Cherry St., Milwaukee, Wis. Professional authors interested in our work are recommended to communicate with the Second Vice-President, while English teachers may derive expert information from Maurice W. Moe, 658 Atlantic St., Appleton, Wis. Youths who possess printing-presses ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... Clapp, of Ripon, Wis, has patented a novel arrangement of a desk attachment for trunks. The desk and tray may be lifted from the trunk when the desk is either ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various
... outrage And that Gloucestre was chief of hyre eritage. 'Damozel,' he seyde, 'thy lord shall have a name For hym and for hys eyrs, fayr wyth out blame, For Robert of Gloucestre hys name shall be and is: For he shall be Erl of Gloucestre and his eyres, I wis.'" ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury - with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire • H. J. L. J. Masse
... Great House of Shanitha, thcarred man." He spoke the Shainsa dialect with an affected lisp. "Will it pleathe you, come wis' me?" ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... are white with snow, And homes are hung with mistletoe; Old Earth is not half bad, I wis— What cheer! what cheer! How it ever seemed sad the wonder is— With a gift to give and a girl to kiss, My dear, my dear. So here's to the girl who never says no! Sing, Ho, a ...
— Myth and Romance - Being a Book of Verses • Madison Cawein
... consists of camotes, pared and sliced, and cooked and eaten with rice. This is a ceremonial dish, and is always prepared at the lis-lis ceremony and at a-su-fal'-i-wis or ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks |
