"Emboss" Quotes from Famous Books
... are dry where we sit, though the coying drops seem With pearls the moist walls to emboss; From the arch mouldy cobwebs in gothic taste stream, Like stucco-work cut out of ... — Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley
... each royal friend. No prince will let Ulysses' heir remove Without some pledge, some monument of love: These will the caldron, these the tripod give; From those the well-pair'd mules we shall receive, Or bowl emboss'd whose golden figures live." ... — The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope
... of the sun, Rising sun! Weaving Southern destiny, Waiting for the mighty hour When our Shiloh shall appear With the flaming sword of right, With the steel of brotherhood, And emboss in ... — The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson |