"Gre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chip out, an' de big stick fell right crossn his neck. Den dar he wuz, wid his head in an' his feet out! an' de Jay Bird 'gun ter laff, an' ter make fun atn 'im. Sezee, 'I hope I see yer! Yer look like sparkin' Miss Robin now! hit's er gre't pity she can't see yer stretched out like dat; an' she'll be hyear, too, d'rectly; she's er comin' ter de party,' sezee, 'an' I'm gwine ter gib her er new dish; I'm gwine ter sot her down ter roas' Woodpecker dis ebenin'. An' now, efn ...
— Diddie, Dumps & Tot - or, Plantation child-life • Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle
... a calf, silly fellow.—A gentleman was enlarging to a Winterton lad on the virtues of Spanish juice [liquorice water]. "Ah,then, ye'll ha' been to th' mines, whe{a}re thaay gets it," the boy exclaimed; whereupon the mother broke in with—"A gre{a}t cauf! Duz he think 'at thaay dig it oot o' th' grund, sa{a}me ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... gravitation universelle que Leibniz considerait a juste titre, du point de vue cartesien, comme une qualite occulte, avec les attractions, les repulsions, les affinites chimiques, avec la theorie de l'evolution, la science tend de plus en plus a penetrer la vie reele des choses. Elle se rapproche, bon gre, mal gre, de la metaphysique et de la poesie, en prenant une conscience plus profonde de la force et du devenir. C'est qu'au fond la pensee humaine est une, quelle que soit la diversite des objets auxquels elle s'applique, art, science, poesie, metaphysique, repondant, chacun a sa facon au meme ...
— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer
... beaupre, Par deux mille canons brusquement empourpre. Il meprisait l'autan, le flux, l'eclair, la brume. A son avant tournait, dans un chaos d'ecume, Une espece de vrille a trouer l'infini. Le Maelstroem s'apaisait sous sa quille aplani. Sa vie interieure etait un incendie, Flamme au gre du pilote apaisee ou grandie; Dans l'antre d'ou sortait son vaste mouvement, Au fond d'une fournaise on voyait vaguement Des etres tenebreux marcher dans des nuees D'etincelles, parmi les braises remuees; Et pour ame il avait dans sa cale un enfer. Il voguait, roi du ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... it was not the usual place for any one to make an appearance. Presently she came back with big eyes and a somewhat scared expression. "Hit's a man, Miss Dimple," she said, in an excited whisper, "with a gre't big haid an' long hair, an' somethin' on ...
— A Sweet Little Maid • Amy E. Blanchard
... lad! He tell't me all aboot it. How he had a mad anger on him, an' kill't his cousin Peter Junior whan they'd been like brithers all their lives, an' hoo he pushed him over the brink o' a gre't precipice to his death, an' hoo he must forever flee fra' the law an' his uncle's wrath. ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine
... think I told the younger that the average height of buildings in America was nine hundred metres. He stared and shook his head doubtfully, but I convinced him in the end. Then in my turn I asked questions, the first being: Where was my friend?—It seems that my friend had left Gre (or whatever it was) the morning of the day I had entered it.—Did they know where my friend was going?—They couldn't say. They had been told that he was very dangerous.—So we talked on and on: How long had I studied French? I spoke very well. ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... an' twis' all roun' de flo', Fling out yo' feet behime, befo', Go lightly, gal, go lightly! Gre't Lan' o' Goshen! but you is spry! Kain't none er de urr gals spring so high, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) • Various
... Liz. "My a'nt what brought me up useter keep a bottle of giggle medicine for us gals. An' it was nasty tastin' stuff, too. She made us take a gre't spoonful if we laffed at table, or after we gotter bed nights. There was jala inter it, I b'lieve. I guess I could ...
— The Girls of Central High in Camp - The Old Professor's Secret • Gertrude W. Morrison
... Gough's famous story of the orator who, with a great flourish of rhetoric as prelude, announced to his audience the startling fact that there was a "gre—at difference in people?" On the strength of this original statement, it has been supposed that there were a variety of tastes to be suited in selecting for the readers of "Gypsy Breynton" the most entertaining passages of this one summer in her life. The last ...
— Gypsy Breynton • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... in connection with Greyhounds point to the high estimation in which the dog has always been held. Dr. Caius, when referring to the name, says "The Greyhound hath his name of this word gre; which word soundeth gradus in Latin, in Englishe degree, because among all dogges these are the most principall, occupying the chiefest place, and being simply and absolutely the best of the gentle kinde ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton
... a rouble!" said Frolov. "He is making his fortune out of the mutability of destiny. He is only kept here for the sake of those two words. Drink, Mustafa! You will make a gre-eat rascal! I mean it is awful how many of your sort are toadies hanging about rich men. The number of these peaceful bandits and robbers is beyond all reckoning! Shouldn't we send for the gypsies now? Eh? Fetch ...
— The Schoolmaster and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... began argumentatively, "the truth is, Mr. Broussard, he jes' keep them chickens to' 'commodate the chaplain. The chaplain, he's a gre't cockfighter, an' he say, 'Mr. Broussard, the Kun'l is mighty strict, an' kinder queer in his head, an' he ain't no dead game sport like me an' you, so if you will oblige me, Mr. Broussard, jes' keep my fightin' chickens in your cellar, an' if the Kun'l say anything to you, tell ...
— Betty at Fort Blizzard • Molly Elliot Seawell
... commended itself to the partisans of the proposed Court. M. Renault, the accomplished Reporter of the committee which deals in the first instance with the subject, after stating that "sur beaucoup de points le droit de la guerre maritime est encore incertain, et chaque Etat le formule au gre de ses idees et de ses interets," lays down that, in accordance with strict juridical reasoning, when international law is silent an international Court should apply the law of the captor. He is, nevertheless, prepared to recommend, as the spokesman of the committee, that in such ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland
... beamed. "Think of a gre't big man like you playin' 'pretend' with a foolish old woman like me! I thought you had ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... don't," responded Jacob, "but when they get Ad'line to come round to their ways o' thinkin' now, after what's been and gone, they'll have cause to thank themselves. She's just like her gre't grandsir Thacher; you can see she's made out o' the same stuff. You might ha' burnt him to the stake, and he'd stick to it he liked it better'n hanging and al'ays meant to die that way. There's an awful bad streak in them Thachers, an' you know it as well as I do. I expect there'll be bad and ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... on Amiel's elder countryman, Rodolphe Toepffer, to Amiel himself: "C'est ainsi qu'on ecrit dans les litteratures qui n'ont point de capitale, de quartier general classique, ou d'Academie; c'est ainsi qu'un Allemand, qu'un Americain, ou meme un Anglais, use a son gre de sa langue. En France au contraire, ou il y a une Academie Francaise ... on doit trouver qu'un tel style est une tres-grande nouveaute et le succes qu'il a obtenu un evenement: il a fallu bien des circonstances pour y preparer." No doubt the preparatory circumstance in Amiel's ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward |
