"Mono" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... notes the parrot dealeth In mono-polly-logue with tongue as free, And, like a woman, all she can revealeth, ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... Alibori, Atakora, Atlantique, Borgou, Collines, Couffo, Donga, Littoral, Mono, Oueme, ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government
... Malouet's only daughter, who comes every year to spend the autumn with her family. She is a person of statuesque beauty, who amuses herself with queenly dignity, and who communicates with ordinary mortals by means of contemptuous mono-syllables uttered in a deep bass voice. She married, some twelve years ago, an Englishman, a member of the diplomatic corps, Lord A——, a personage equally handsome and impassive as herself. He addresses at intervals ...
— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet
... en tiu cxi mondo. Kiel li kondutos je la horo de la morto, kiam Dio vokos lin antaux sian jugxejon? Mono, lia plej bona amiko, forlasos lin unue. Liaj parencoj akompanos lin gxis la pordo de la tombo, kaj tiam returnos domen. La tria, kiun li ofte forgesis dum la vivo estas liaj Bonagoj. Nur tiuj cxi akompanos lin gxis la trono de la Jugxisto. ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 2 • Various
... her studying in his provincial dialect until she becomes the Champollion of New England or Western or Southern barbarisms. She has learned that haow means what; that think-in' is the same thing as thinking, or she has found out the meaning of that extraordinary mono syllable, which no single-tongued phonographer can make legible, prevailing on the banks of the Hudson and at its embouchure, and elsewhere,—what they say when they think they say first, (fe-eest,—fe as in the French le),—or that cheer means chair,—or ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
... our own days we have seen this curious controversy revived. One of the latest, if not the last, writer on the subject was Cardinal Lambruschini; and the last papal ordinance was promulgated by Pio Mono, ...
— Legends of the Madonna • Mrs. Jameson
... almost exactly similar in colour, which is kept, and in shape, which is uninjured, to those which fringe the banks of the Thames to-day. These fresh-water plants show their hoary antiquity by the fashion of their generation. Most of them are mono-cotyledonous—with a single seed-lobe, like those of the early world. There is nothing quite as old among the Thames fishes as the mud fishes, the lineal descendants of the earliest of their race. But the same water creatures ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish
... Atakora, Atlantique, Borgou, Mono, Oueme, Zou; note - six additional provinces have been reported but not confirmed; they are Alibori, Collines, Couffo, Donga, Littoral, and Plateau; moreover, the term "province" may have been ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... everybody, don's mathematics, bad French, ignorance of all Europe except Switzerland, forensic exercises in the Union Debating Society, and cant about the Gothic, the Oxford and Cambridge that turned boys full of life and hope and infinite possibility into barristers, politicians, mono-lingual diplomatists, bishops, schoolmasters, company directors, and remittance men, are ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells
... roadway swung to the south slope of the range, the track in the fresh snow cut by the lead vehicle turned dark gray and then almost black. When the present storm had ended and before new snow fell again, the south slopes would again be stained with clouds of black, mono-molecular film, gushing out in clouds behind spray jets of the survey planes. Each successive layer was treated, lessening the evaporative surface effects of the sun upon the south slopes and holding as much of the moisture-giving snow to the earth for controlled runoff. A pair of fresh elk-tracks ...
— The Thirst Quenchers • Rick Raphael
... simplest form of design or drawing was mere outline, or monogrammon, and was invented by Cleanthes, of Corinth. After this the outlines were filled in, and light and shade introduced of one color, and hence were styled mono-chromes. Telephanes, of Sicyon, further improved the art by indicating the principal details of anatomy; Euphantes, of Corinth, or Craton, of Sicyon, by the introduction of color. Cimon, of Cleonae, is the first who is mentioned as having advanced the art of painting in Greece, ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... yama-no-mono is at once known. Numbers of these baskets were visible, principally at the doors of the smaller dwellings. They are carried on the back, and are used to contain all that the yama-no-mono buy,—old paper, old wearing apparel, ...
— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn
... ate to his heart's, or rather his appetite's, content. It was a more arduous undertaking to provide the running accompaniment of thought, or at least of words, without which the breakfast would have been little better than a pig-trough. The conversation or rather mono-polylogue, as some great performer calls it, ran in ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman |
