"Moabitess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... taken up with the matter that he barely showed Carmichael a fine copy of John of Damascus he had secured from London, and went out of his course at worship to read, as well as to expound with much feeling, the story of Ruth the Moabitess, showing conclusively that she had in her a high spirit, and that she was designed of God to be a strength to the house of David. He was also very cheerful in the morning, and bade Carmichael good-bye at Tochty woods with encouraging words. He also ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... cite this as at all a striking discovery, but it did have a curious effect upon Theron Ware. Up to that very afternoon, his notion of the kind of book he wanted to write had been founded upon a popular book called "Ruth the Moabitess," written by a clergyman he knew very well, the Rev. E. Ray Mifflin. This model performance troubled itself not at all with difficult points, but went swimmingly along through scented summer seas of pretty rhetoric, teaching nothing, it is true, but pleasing ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... he slept, the Moabitess Ruth Lay at his feet, expectant of his waking. He knowing not what sweet guile she was making; She knowing not what ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo |
