"Doris" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... would remove her so far that there would not be a possible chance to appear again before him? Was there not hidden in these words a menace, a warning? Would not the king revenge on her the sad experiences of his youth? Perhaps he would punish her for what Doris Ritter had suffered! Doris Ritter! She, too, had loved a crown prince—she, too, had dared to raise her eyes to the future King of Prussia, for which she was cruelly punished, though chaste and pure, and hurled down to the abyss of shame for the crime of loving an heir ...
— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach
... plants, Professor Heer has recognised four species common to the lignite of Bovey Tracey, a Lower Miocene formation presently to be described: namely, Sequoia Couttsiae, Heer; Andromeda reticulata, Ettings.; Nelumbium (Nymphoea) doris, Heer; and Carpolithes Websteri, Brong. (Pengelly, preface to The Lignite Formation of Bovey Tracey page 17. London 1863.) The seed-vessels of Chara medicaginula, Brong, and Chara helicteres are characteristic of ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... Revenge! Would that have done? I see a maddened father stand with smoking revolver above the body of a silky-whiskered villain. "Doris," the panting parent cries, "the butcher boy knows all and wants you for his bride." And down comes the happy curtain on the lovers. The Wreckers belongs to Stevenson. The Pirates' Nest! It is too ornithological. The Natural History ...
— Wappin' Wharf - A Frightful Comedy of Pirates • Charles S. Brooks |
