"Brunei" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... originally put at the extremely low price of six ducats and a half a copy. (Biblia Polyglotta Compluti, Praefix.) As only 600 copies, however, were struck off, it has become exceedingly rare and valuable. According to Brunei, it has been ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott
... "came into my head when I remembered how I used to listen, in bed, to your music at school." Interesting would be a record of the germs and first causes of all the greatest poets' conceptions! The elder Brunei's first hint for his "shield," in constructing the tunnel under the Thames, was taken from watching the labor of a sea-insect, which, having a projecting hood, could bore into the ship's timber, unmolested ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 39, January, 1861 • Various |
