"Puer" Quotes from Famous Books
... hay as into water; at last he fell sound asleep. Finally a cool breeze blew in his eyes, when the creaking doors of the stable were opened with a crash; and the Bernardine, Father Robak, came in with his belt of knotted cord, calling out, "Surge, puer!" and plying jocosely over his shoulders ... — Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz
... et gesta canamus Herculis, et forti monstra subacta manu; Ut timidae malri pressos ostenderit angues, Intrepidusque fero riserit ore puer. ... — Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... Acon, dextro, capta est Leonilla sinistro, Et potis est forma vincere uterque Deos. Blande puer, lumen, quod habes concede puellae, Sic tu caecus ... — Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 • Various |