"Dos" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Coalcom['a]n have neck-stripes equally long. One specimen from 40 kilometers north of Ciudad M['e]xico and several from the vicinity of Tanc['i]taro, Michoac['a]n, have rather shorter neck-stripes. One specimen from Dos Aguas, Michoac['a]n, has the neck-stripes partially fragmented into rows of spots as ...
— A Taxonomic Study of the Middle American Snake, Pituophis deppei • William E. Duellman
... da ponta de Galle por diante na face da terra contra o Sul, e Oriente: e por ser pegada neste Cabo Galle, chamou a outra gente, que vivia do meio da ilha pera cima, aos que aqui habitavam Chingilla e a lingua delles tambem, quasi como se dissessem lingua ou gente dos Chijo de Galle"—DE BARROS, Asia, &c., Dec. iii. lib. ii. c. i. DE COUTO'S account is as follows: "E como os Chins formam os primeiros que navegaram pelo Oriente, tendo noticia da canella, acudiram muitos 'juncos' ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... pair sank into silence, only broken by sundry "How d'ye dos?" and "Good mornings!" interchanged with their friends, till they ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... wnai'r Glyw, Ei ddiddig was a ddeddyw,— "Fy ngwas, nac aros, dos di, A rhed," eb ei Fawrhydi,— "Galw ar fyrr fy Mreyron, Clifford hoew, Caerloew lon; Mortimer yn funer fo, A ...
— Gwaith Alun • Alun
... it the other way you see something was telling me all the time Id have to introduce myself not knowing me from Adam very funny wouldnt it Im his wife or pretend we were in Spain with him half awake without a Gods notion where he is dos huevos estrellados senor Lord the cracked things come into my head sometimes itd be great fun supposing he stayed with us why not theres the room upstairs empty and Millys bed in the back room he could do his writing and studies at the table in there for all the scribbling he does at ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... coast of Equatorial Africa; they may, however, not be true fowls, but gallinaceous birds belonging to the genus Phasidus. The old voyager Barbut says that poultry are not natural to Guinea. Capt. W. Allen ('Narrative of Niger Expedition' 1848 volume 2 page 42) describes wild fowls on Ilha dos Rollas, an island near St. Thomas's on the west coast of Africa; the natives informed him that they had escaped from a vessel wrecked there many years ago; they were extremely wild and had "a cry quite different to that of the domestic fowl," and their appearance was somewhat ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
... beautiful language of the country's early conquerors, "Las Cumbres Espanolas," or "Las dos Hermanas" (The Two Sisters), and in the Ute tongue, ...
— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman
... master's cloth and me at the same time. The villain went to the Lowther Arcade—took me with him by force. Fancy my agony; literally accessory to handing ices to milliners' apprentices and staymakers; and when the wretch commenced quadrilling it, he dos-a-dos'd me up against a fat soap-boiler's wife, in filthy three-turned-and-dyed ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 6, 1841, • Various
... your doctoring for me!" cried the grum Esther; "no more of your quiddities in a healthy family, say I! Here was I doing well, only a little out of sorts with over instructing the young, and you dos'd me with a drug that hangs about my tongue, like a pound weight on ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper
... Donna Pelliccia with whatever sums she may require, not exceeding twenty-five thousand doubloons, at my account. "THE DUKE DOS ARCOS" ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... is the Ribeira dos Soccorridos ('River of the Rescued'), where two of the Zargo's lads were with difficulty saved from the violent stream then flowing. It is now provided with a long bridge-causeway of three arches, approached by ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Vol. I • Richard F. Burton
... the Colombian gunboat Bogota. When I was a young feller I did a hitch in the navy and become a first-class gunner, and then I went to sea in the merchant marine, and got my mate's license, and when I flashed my credentials on the president of the United States of Colombia he give me a job at "dos cienti pesos oro" per. That's Spanish for two hundred bucks gold a month. I've been through two wars and I got a medal for sinkin' a fishin' smack. I talk Spanish just like a native, I don't drink no more to speak of, and I've been savin' my money. Some day when I get the price together I'm ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... You bad boy!" wailed the little girl, making a dash for Paul, who deftly evaded her and took refuge behind Betty's chair, "Div me dos tandies—dive ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope
... been knee-haltered, the usual way of securing them from straying, and had been turned out with the cattle to pick up as much sustenance as they could obtain from the withered grass, with one of the Hottentot boys, old Dos, to watch them. The Hottentots, like postilions, are always boys to the end of their days. Dos, though near sixty, was so small and wiry, that at a little distance he might have been mistaken for ...
— Hendricks the Hunter - The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand • W.H.G. Kingston
... conturbatur omnis homo Be the day never so long at last it ringeth to even-song. Vita salillum. Non possumus aliquid contra veritatem sed pro veritate. Sapie[n]tia quoque perseueravit mecum Magnorum fluuiorum navigabiles fontes. Dos est vxoria lites Haud numine nostro Atque animis illabere nostris Animos nil magne laudi egentes Magnanimj heroes nati mehioribus annis AEuo rarissima nostro Simplicitas Qui silet est firmus Si nunquam fallit imago And I would haue thowght Sed fugit interea ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... Doble casamiento entre dos familias. Pag-aasawa ng isang lalaki't isang babae ng isang mag-anak sa mga tao ng kasundong ...
— Dictionary English-Spanish-Tagalog • Sofronio G. Calderon
... Greeks broke up their camp, and all going aboard their ships, they set sail, as if they had given up the siege, and were about to return to Greece. But they went no farther than the island of Tenʹe-dos, about three ...
— The Story of Troy • Michael Clarke
... village appeared in a clearing on the right bank. This was Dos Hermanos (Two Brothers), where people who left Gatun early in the morning usually stopped for breakfast, and their boatmen stopped for gossip. But Maria only shook his head at sight of it, and he and Francisco paused in their paddling ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... represents the most ancient part of the city of Oporto. We are here directly fronting the bishop's palace, which, with the Se, or Cathedral,[4] and buildings, to the left, occupy the crest of the hill. Further left is the steeple of the church dos Clerigos, said to be the loftiest in Portugal after that of Mafra. This tower is visible from the sea at a distance of ten leagues, and serves as an important landmark for ships steering to the mouth of the Douro. It ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 559, July 28, 1832 • Various
... be chartered at much less cost (gentlemen who have lived in India will persist in calling this vehicle a jingle, which perhaps sounds better); it is a kind of dos-a-dos conveyance, holding three in front and three behind: it has a waterproof top to it supported by four iron rods, and oilskin curtains to draw all round as a protection from the rain ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... which may vie with those of Africa in barrenness. Almost in the very centre of the continent is a sandy desert, called the Campos dos Paricis. Here the surface is formed by long-backed ridges of sandy hills parallel to one another. So loose is the soil, that even the patient mule with a burden on his back can hardly make his ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston
... n'avait peur de rien, secoua la bride, et le coursier vint s'agenouiller devant lui, doux comme un agneau. Yvon brida le cheval sans peine, monta sur son dos, retourna la maison ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... a quoi bon dire cela? Ce qui n'est pas beau a tort d'etre; La beaute n'aime que la beaute, Avril tourne le dos a Janvier. ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... Germinie, Couturat, and the rest; and the mention of Father Sibilla involves a brief account of the order of Barefooted Trinitarians from January, 1198, to the spring of 1853! There is a frequent repetition of the same idea with scarcely any verbal change: un dos d'amateur in Renee Mauperin and le dos du cocher in Germinie Lacerteux. And the possibilities of the human back were evidently not exhausted, for at Christmas, 1882, Edmond de Goncourt makes a careful note of the dos de ...
— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
... Liberation, felt that the work of the men of 1808 had been undone. They had exchanged a foreign for a domestic tyrant. What his feelings were we may gather from his ode in commemoration of the uprising of the Madrid populace against the troops of Murat, "Al Dos ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... the Divel though not in the Same Shape for they got a bill of Sail of a most all by thare Sutilly & still hold the Same. perhaps the Jentlemen will say it is to pay my debt. Queri. Wherino a man that ows one pound to my shiling. I dont want it to pay his one, I believe he dos. My wife pretends to say I abus'd her for the truth of this I will apiel to all ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... facts to show that disease has a mental, mortal origin, - that faith in rules of health or in drugs 169:12 begets and fosters disease by attracting the mind to the subject of sickness, by exciting fear of disease, and by dos- ing the body in order to avoid it. The faith reposed in 169:15 these things should find stronger supports and a higher home. If we understood the control of Mind over body, we should put no faith in ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... occupied the village of Fuentes d'Onoro, between the two streams of the Dos Casas and the Furones; they covered thus their principal communications with Portugal by the bridge of Castelbon over the Coa, and defended against us the road of Almeida. The combat began (3rd May, 1811) upon the two shores of the Dos Casas. Extremely furious on both sides, it left ...
— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt
... there dos'nt seem to be much to put into a diry only fites and who got licked at school and if it ranes or snows, so i ...
— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute
... describing the smaller vessels of Malacca which he calls balos in ch. 13, De Embarcacoes, says: "At the poop they have two rudders, one on each side to steer with." E por poupa dos ballos, tem 2 lemes, hum en cada lado pera o governo. (Malacca, l'Inde merid. et le Cathay, Bruxelles, 1882, ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... 1879 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the compilers of the catalogue amused themselves by giving the victim's name as follows: "Un pendu, vetu d'une longue robe, les mains lies sur le dos ... Bernardo di Bendino Barontigni, marchand de pantalons" (see Catalogue descriptif des Dessins de Mailres anciens exposes a l'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris 1879; No. 83, pp. 9-10). Now, the criminal represented here, is none other than Bernardino di Bandino Baroncelli the murderer ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... summer and fall of 1918 was such a season on the Range Reserve (Pl. II, Fig. 2). If food stores are inadequate at such a time the kangaroo rats must perish in considerable numbers. Fisher found many deserted mounds in the vicinity of Dos Cabezos, Ariz., in June, 1894, which may be accounted for in this way. In 1921 Vorhies found all mounds within 4 or 5 miles of Albuquerque, N. Mex., deserted by spectabilis, resulting probably from overgrazing by sheep and goats during a succession of dry years. In the arid Southwest natural ...
— Life History of the Kangaroo Rat • Charles T. Vorhies and Walter P. Taylor
... march the next day brought us to Los Dos Palmas, or the "Two Palms," so called from the fact that two luxuriant palm trees formerly flourished here, the stumps of which were then to be seen. Thence to Carizo Creek, nine miles, where the command rested one day. Here commences ...
— Frontier service during the rebellion - or, A history of Company K, First Infantry, California Volunteers • George H. Pettis |
