"Sind" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... see what a vain and impossible thing they undertake; for, however imperiously they command, and however hard they drive, they cannot force people any farther than they follow with their mouth and the hand. They cannot compel the heart, though they should break it. For true is the maxim: Gedanken sind zollfrei. (No toll is levied on thought.) When weak consciences are driven by force to lie, deceive, and say otherwise than they believe in the heart, they burden themselves also with a heavy sin; for all the lies ...
— Luther Examined and Reexamined - A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation • W. H. T. Dau
... von Karten, auf denen die hauptschlichsten erscheinungen der anorganischen und organischen Natur nach ihrer geographischen Verbreitung und Vertheilung bildlich dargestellt sind. ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various
... at the words "des kuehnsten Muthes Koenigin, des Weltenwerdens Waltering," followed by their joyous upward flight; the broken chords of the harp; the swelling upward semitones of flute, oboe, and clarinet bringing forth the germ of No. 11b.; the trombone chords at the words "Leben und Tod sind unterthan ihr"; the arpeggio accompaniment of the violas, and the wonderfully poetic climax at the end, "des Todes Werk ... Frau Minne hat es meiner Macht entwandt." Brangaene's entreaties are vain; again she cannot feel what Isolde feels—notice the difference between her melody and the soaring ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight
... bread with milk, not grain. An enthusiast, following Humboldt (p. 87), describes the 'joyous and melodious notes' of the bird as 'the purest incense that can ascend to heaven.'] (bulbuls), sundry seguidillas, and El Tajaraste. The music may be heard everywhere between Morocco and Sind. It starts with the highest possible falsetto and gradually falls like a wail, ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Vol. I • Richard F. Burton
... were held to have ruled from nine castles over the Marusthali or 'Region of death,' the name given to the great desert of Rajputana, which extends from Sind to the Aravalli mountains and from the great salt lake to the flat skirting the Garah. The principal of these castles were Abu, Nundore, Umarkot, Arore, and Lodorva. [382] And, 'The world is the Pramara's,' was another saying expressive of the resplendent ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell
... he hear'd my voice, and then he took more to me when he corned to know me character; and says he to me wan day, 'Barney,' says he, 'I'm gittin' tired o' this kind o' life now, and if ye'll agree to stop here as overseer, and sind me the proceeds o' the mine to Rio Janeiro, a great city on the sea-coast, an' the capital o' Brazil, I'll give ye a good share o' the profits. But,' says he, 'ye'll need to pretind ye're a Roosian, or a Pole, or somethin' o' that kind; for the fellows in thim parts are ...
— Martin Rattler • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... accompany the quotations from the Koran is significant. "Yorick Sterne," he says, "war der schnste Geist, der je gewirkt hat; wer ihn liest, fhlet sich sogleich frei und schn; sein Humor ist unnachahmlich, und nicht jeder Humor befreit die Seele" (490). "Sagacitt und Penetration sind bei ihm grenzenlos" (528). Goethe asserts here that every person of culture should at that very time read Sterne's works, so that the nineteenth century might learn "what we owed him and perceive what we might owe him." Goethe took Sterne's narrative of his journey ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer
... that they were Jewish and used them like any other words. But I once gave great offence to my friend Professor Bernays, who was a Jew. He had uttered some quite incredible statement, and I exclaimed, "Sind Sie denn ganz maschukke?"—Hebrew for "mad." I meant no harm, but he was very ...
— My Autobiography - A Fragment • F. Max Mueller
... King in Ireland, an' sorra a beggar 'ud come an the dure, but the King 'ud come out in his gown an' shlippers an' ax him how he come to be poor, an' sind him 'round to the kitchen to be warrumed wid a dhrop av whishkey an' fed wid all the cold pitaties that was in the panthry. All the people riz up whin he was a-walkin' down the shtrate wid a big goold-top shtick in his hand, an' the crown a-shinin' on his head, an' they said, 'God save ...
— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.
... [Footnote 59: "Sie sind objectives, nicht subjectives Recht." Dicey, pp. 184 et seq., 193 et seq., 223 et seq., etc. Dicey treats the whole doctrine of the rights of liberty in the section "The Rule of Law." Individual liberty according to him is in England simply ...
— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek
... Tannenbaum, wie tru sind deine Blatter! Da gruenst nicht nur zur Sommerseit, Nein, auch in Winter, ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
... I'll have to sind five timme poor oul mother in Ireland. But no matther: I said a hundherd; and what I said I'll stick to, if I have ...
— John Bull's Other Island • George Bernard Shaw
... were lately appointed Governmint gardner, we sind a sample of our goods. Eny orders ye can sind will ...
— A Trip to Manitoba • Mary FitzGibbon
... yer money," she cried wrathfully. "What sort av a man are ye, at all, at all, that ye sind yer helpless childer to a strange land with a scut ...
— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor
... whin he would dhrop on his two marrowbones and thank God for the price of a shmell of calamity-wather" (whiskey). "An' now look at him! D'ye mind the iligant property he has outside Dublin? An ye'll all get the like o' that, every bosthoon among yez, av ye get Home Rule. But yez must sind me to Parlimint. Sure I have ivery quollification. Wasn't I born among yez? Wasn't I rared among yez? Don't I know what yez wants? An' didn't I go many a day widout a male? Aye, that I did, an' could do it ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
... said the caretaker's wife. "Oh, darlint, wait till Mike comes! Come down, now!—the good angels be wid you. There should have been a way at the back. Walk tinderly an' hould tight. Heaven above sind there'll be no wind! Oh, why wasn't his ugly rooms at the back, where 'tis only ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... what every rascal might plead when caught with a rebel's pass in his pocket. Geleitsbriefe fur Schurken sind Steckbriefe fur die Gerechtigkeit.' (Safe- conduct passes for knaves are writs of ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... Haende, Hohes Glueck, dass ich's vollende! Lass, o lass mich nicht ermatten! Nein, es sind nicht leere Traeume: Jetzt nur Stangen, diese Baeume 5 Geben einst ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... Sam," replied Phelim, "but sind round the bottle, an' don't forget to let it come this way. I ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... nations have no moral right to live it becomes important to remember that in the economy of Prussian Junkerdom there is only one strong race—his own. "Wir sind die Weltrasse." The ultimate goal is the super-nation, and the premise upon which the whole policy is based is that Germany is predestined to be that super-nation. Bernhardi believes—and his belief is but the reflex of the oft-repeated boast of the Kaiser—that ...
— The Evidence in the Case • James M. Beck
... so viel ihrer bisher in Lotharingen peinlich sind verhoeret worden, bekandten, dass solche Versammlung in keiner andern Nacht, als welche zu nechst vor dem Donnerstag oder Sambstag hergehet, gehalten werden.—Johannes a Villa und Agathina des Schneiders Francisci weib, sagt, eine oder zwey Stunde vor Mitternacht, ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... "I heerd them over there Tell how the goold was lyin' in the sthreet, An' guineas in the very mud that sthuck To the ould brogans on a poor man's feet!" "Begorra, Pat," says Dolan, "may ould Nick Fly off wid thim rapscallions, schaming rogues, An' sind thim thrampin' purgatory's flure, Wid red hot guineas in ...
— Old Spookses' Pass • Isabella Valancy Crawford
... was fond of stories. He liked to read about Sind-bad the Sailor, and Rob-in-son Cru-soe. But most of all he liked to read about other countries. He had twenty small volumes called "The World Dis-played." They told about the people and countries of the world. Irving read these little ...
— Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans • Edward Eggleston
... zwei Wasser Wohl zwischen mir und Dir Das eine sind die Thraenen, Das andre ist der See!" [Note: Des ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen
... Bestandteile des Kaffees sind die Traeger der erregenden Wirkung? Archiv fuer experimentelle Pathologie und Pharmakologie, ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... Bonypart, th' impror iv th' Frinch, Gin'ral Ulis S. Grant, an' Cousin George Dooley, hired coarse, rude men that wudden't know th' diff'rence between goluf an' crokay, an' had their pants tucked in their boots an' chewed tobacco be th' pound. Thank Hivin, McKinley knows betther thin to sind th' likes iv thim abroad to shock our frinds be dumpin' their coffee into thimsilves fr'm ...
— Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War • Finley Peter Dunne
... sondern ein blosses Unterhaltungsdrama. Amuesieren wollten die Komoediendichter, nichts weiter. Jedes hoehere Streben lag ihnen fern. Wohl spickten sie ihre Lustspiele mit moralischen Sentenzen.... Aber die schoenen Sentenzen sind eben nur Zierat, sind nur Verbramung einer in ihrem Kerne und Wesen durch und durch unsittlichen Dichtung ... Mit der Wahrscheinlichkeit der Handlung wird es sehr leicht genommen: die seltsamsten Zufaelle werden als so ziemlich selbstverstaendliche Moeglichkeiten hingestellt ... Es ginge ...
— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • Wilton Wallace Blancke
... Compound sollte genau nach Vorschrift eingenommen werden, bis die Regeln regelmaessig sich alle 28 Tage einstellen. Zeigt sich Anlage zu Verstopfung, so muss man auch Lydia E. Pinkham's Leberpillen brauchen, die speciell fuer den Gebrauch von Frauen zusammengestellt worden sind und in jeder Beziehung harmonisch mit ...
— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham
... as rifles, ay, an' better at close quarters? Shut up your tatie-trap, now, an' be off to Muster Gashford's hut for he towld me to sind you there widout delay." ...
— Twice Bought • R.M. Ballantyne
... "shall see what I can learn from Mrs. Bernstone, and from the Indian servant, who, Mr. Thaddeus tell me, sleeps in the next garret. Then I shall study the great Jones's methods and listen to his not too delicate sarcasms. 'Wir sind gewohnt das die Menschen verhoehnen was sie nicht verstehen.' Goethe ...
— The Sign of the Four • Arthur Conan Doyle
... of Richard Hertwig, who inclined to think that these cells sometimes developed from the protoplasm of the Radiolarian, and failing to verify the observations of Cienkowski, maintained the opinion of Haeckel that the yellow cells "fur den Stoffwechsel der Radiolarien von Bedeutung sind." In a later publication (1879) he, however, hesitates to decide as to the nature of the yellow cells, but suggests two considerations as favoring the view of their parasitic nature—first, that yellow cells are to be found in Radiolarians which possess only a single nucleus, and secondly, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various
... ganz wunderbare Productionen aus, die auf Gesetze der Form und der Farbe gegruendet scheinen, die dem Uneingeweihten unverstaendlich sind."—Wiener Presse. ...
— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler
... powerful sovereign was the Sultan of Delhi, Nassiruddin Mahmud of the Turki House of Iltitmish;[5] but, though both Sind and Bengal acknowledged his supremacy, no part of Peninsular India had yet been invaded, and throughout the long period of our Traveller's residence in the East the Kings of Delhi had their hands too ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... rig up a bill that'd make keepin' house a recreation while so softenin' th' spirit iv th' haughty sign iv a noble race in th' kitchen that cookin' buckwheat cakes on a hot day with th' aid iv a bottle iv smokeless powdher'd not cause her f'r to sind a worthy man to his office in slippers an' without ...
— Mr. Dooley's Philosophy • Finley Peter Dunne
... keinen Gegenstand denken, ohne durch Kategorien; wir koennen keinen gedachten Gegenstand erkennen, ohne durch Anschauungen, die jenen Begriffen entsprechen. Nun sind alle unsere Anschauungen sinnlich, und diese Erkenntniss, so fern der Gegenstand derselben gegeben ist, ist empirisch. Empirische Erkenntniss aber ist Erfahrung. Folglich ist uns keine Erkenntniss a priori moeglich, als ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley
... Volkslieder; sie sind eine Fundgrube der schoensten Melodien und oeffnen dir den Blick in den Charakter der ...
— Advice to Young Musicians. Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln • Robert Schumann
... sayin'—a man wid a bum leg was camped in th' shack av Melton's No. 8, an' th' harses in th' shtable. An' s'posin' some one shnaked in in th' noight an' stole th' harses on um an' druv 'em to Hilarity, an' waited f'r th' boss to sind f'r 'em. An' s'posin' a wake wint by befoor th' boss c'd sind a man down to look up th' team he'd sint f'r a cook, wid orders to hurry back. An' s'posin' he found th' bum-legged driver froze shtiff on th' tote-road phwere he'd made out to hobble a few moiles on his crutch—phwat ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... were, we are informed, after the expedition to India, most anxious for repose; but that Prince was too well acquainted with the consequences of this indulgence to permit them to enjoy it. He had, after he passed the Indus, led them through the deserts of Sind to the attack of a feudatory chief, who had established himself in the government of that province. This ruler had courted Nadir Shah when he first threatened the invasion of India, as he deemed such a measure ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various
... his conversations with Henry Crabb Robinson about Byron, said "There is no padding in his poetry" ("Es sind keine Flickwoerter im Gedichte"). This was in 1829, five years after Byron died. "This, and indeed every evening, I believe, Lord Byron was the subject of his praise. He compared the brilliancy and clearness of his style ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... In the doorway, the captain gave some orders to a soldier who soon returned with a bit of chalk which had been used to number the lodging places. Von Hartrott wished to protect his uncle and began tracing on the wall near the door:—"Bitte, nicht plundern. Es sind ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Compare Brinckmann's remarks on mediaeval towns: 'Der Nachdruck liegt auf den einzelnen Gebaeuden, der Kathedrale, dem Palazzo publico, den festen Palaesten des Adels, nicht auf ibrer einheitlichen Verbindung. Ebenso erscheint die ganze Stadt nur eine Ansammlung einzelner Bauten. Strassen und Plaetze sind ...
— Ancient Town-Planning • F. Haverfield
... well to start from England not later than the middle of March, as the Red Sea and the Sind Desert begin to warm up uncomfortably in spring. Srinagar would then be reached fairly early in April, and the visitor should arrange, if possible, to remain in the country until the middle of October. We had to leave just as the gorgeous ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... "Sind die Zimmer saemmtlich besetzt der Burg von Otranto: Kommt, voll innigen Grimmes, der erste Riesenbesitzer Stuckweis an, and verdraengt die neuen falschen Bewohner. Wehe! den Fliehenden, weh! den Bleibenden also ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... after telling the landlord, will yez? Well, thin, yez can just tell the landlord, an' yez can just sind him to me. You'll sind Tim Reilly to me. Maybe yez don't know that Tim Reilly once carried bricks fer my old daddy, an' many's the time I've given him a bite an' a sup at our back door. Oh, yes, sind him ...
— The Van Dwellers - A Strenuous Quest for a Home • Albert Bigelow Paine |
