"Untranslatable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... verses that Joseph Warton would have liked in secret, that Dr. Johnson would have proved to be untranslatable into reasonable prose, and which the imagination welcomes at once without caring whether it be exactly conformable to barbara or celarent. Another pretty verse ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell
... short word for a very long process, and untranslatable by any English equivalent. It means the whole system of the laws of metempsychosis, running in a long chain forward into the future, and ...
— The Substance of a Dream • F. W. Bain
... since you was made a trustee?" said the Squire, beginning his sentence with an untranslatable sort of grunt, and ending ...
— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner
... them. "They are English, Angles!" the slave-dealers answered. The deacon's pity veiled itself in poetic humour. "Not Angles, but Angels," he said, "with faces so angel-like! From what country come they?" "They come," said the merchants, "from Deira." "De ira!" was the untranslatable reply; "aye, plucked from God's ire, and called to Christ's mercy! And what is the name of their king?" "AElla," they told him, and Gregory seized on the words as of good omen. "Alleluia shall be sung in AElla's land!" he cried, and passed on, ...
— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson
... head of an every-day citizen with great lapses of character? Jim Barlow, entranced, doubted his senses yet could not doubt the touch of soft hands clasped in his neck. He held his head back a little to be sure that they were real. Yes, they were there, the hands—Barlow's next remark was long, but untranslatable. Minutes later. "Mary, tell me what you mean. Not that I care much if—if this." Language grows elliptical under stress. "But—did you get me? I'm—a coward." A ...
— Joy in the Morning • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... emphatic, untranslatable here. Observe the order quel climat, quel desert, and the ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... kneeling on the other side. "No," he said with an indescribable gesture and untranslatable inflection, "he is not dead. He is living in the eternal mansions of glory with ...
— The Crucifixion of Philip Strong • Charles M. Sheldon
... "Croute," "crouton," and "croute-au-pot," untranslatable, and without equivalent in English. A "croute" is the slang term for ...
— Sons of the Soil • Honore de Balzac
... to me a little note on foreign paper, unaddressed, an enclosure forwarded by Janet, and containing merely one scrap from the playful XENIEN of Ottilia's favourite brotherly poets, of untranslatable flavour:— ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith |
