"Round-robin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... misfortune are not improvised. A population, enervated by twenty years of slavery, corruption, and luxury, is not likely to immolate itself for country, like the Spartans at Thermopylae. People who mean to die do not sign a preliminary round-robin to do so. Real fighting soldiers do not parade the streets behind half-a-dozen fantastically dressed vivandieres. When in a town of 2,000,000 inhabitants not above 12,000 can be found ready to submit to military discipline, and to go outside an inner line of fortifications, ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere
... had been originally planned, were to disperse on the Wednesday after Easter, but on the Tuesday various secret conferences were held, and with much formality a round-robin was signed and presented to Lady Nottingham, stating that her guests were so much pleased with their quarters that they unanimously wished to stop an ...
— Daisy's Aunt • E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
... of the bank, where the bonds and stocks were kept, and come out rubbing his spectacles. The clerks would have forged a letter for him had they deemed it possible. There was talk even of sending a round-robin to ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
... shows himself superior in judgement to Johnson, who, when Burke, Reynolds, and others, in a "round-robin," requested that the epitaph on Goldsmith, which was entrusted to him to draw up, should be in English instead of Latin, refused, with the absurd expression that "he would never be guilty of defacing Westminster ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole
... They drafted a Round Robin to the Englishman, the backslider of old days, adjuring him in the interests of the Creed to explain whether there was any connection between the embodiment of some Egyptian God or other (I have forgotten the name) and his communication. They called ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... in this house for a week," said she, "I reckon those four men and seven maids would scarce send up a round robin begging ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... the afternoon all the steerage passengers sent me and the captain what they call a 'round robin,' and asked if he would let them have a concert in the steerage, and if I would sing. And we did have it—on the deck—and I had to sing that particular song ...
— Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories - 1904 • Louis Becke |
