"Margent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through infirmity, be guilty of others, yet he is accounted upright. And hence it is, I think, that David was called a man after God's own heart; to wit, because he served his own generation by the will of God; or, as the margent reads, after he had, in his own age, served the will of God. (Acts 13) By the sin of the times, Satan, as it were, set up his standard in defiance to God; seeking then to cause his name, in a signal way, to be dishonoured, and that by the professors of that age. And ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... margent of the sea, But on the hilltop I would be, My little house a mossy den, Between me and the world of men. Beside me dips a wide ravine, Covered with a flowery screen; Far round me rise a band of hills, Whose voices reach me by their rills, Or deep susurrus of the wood, That stands ...
— Poems • Elizabeth Stoddard
... honor the woman that can honor herself with her attire; a good text always deserves a fair margent; I am not much offended if I see a trim far trimmer than she that wears it. In a word, whatever Christianity or civility will allow, I can afford with London measure: but when I hear a nugiperous gentledame inquire what dress the Queen ...
— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck |
