"Lviii" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Observ. LVIII. Of a new Property in the Air, and several other transparent Mediums nam'd Inflection, whereby very many considerable Phaenomena are attempted to be solv'd, and ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... kurae, O. Sw. kura, Norse kura, kurra, bend down, become quiet, go to rest. Norse kurr, adj. silent, kurrende still, perfectly quiet, cowered to silence. The fundamental idea in the O.N. word was probably that of "lying quiet." Cp. Shetland to cur, to sit down. Isaiah, LVIII, 5: "His head till cower like ...
— Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch • George Tobias Flom
... LVIII. These ease the comers of their loads, those drive The drones afar. The busy work each plies, And sweet with thyme and honey smells the hive. "O happy ye, whose walls already rise!" Exclaimed AEneas, ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... usual tendency to confess the worst of himself, that he was discharged, and the incident has been variously told. George Barnes himself has declared that Clemens resigned with great willingness. It is very likely that the paragraph at the end of Chapter LVIII in 'Roughing It' presents the situation with fair accuracy, though, as always, the author makes it as unpleasant for himself ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine |
