"Sett" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... took my little daughter Katy into my Study and there I told my child That I am to Dy Shortly and Shee must, when I am Dead, Remember every Thing, that I now said unto her. I sett before her the sinful condition of her Nature and I charged her to pray in secret places every day. That God for the sake of Jesus Christ would give her a New Heart. I gave her to understand that when I am taken from her she must look ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... an ancient borough town, corporate and parliamentary, returning one member. The place long ago obtained the appellation "beautiful." Leland says, "because of its present site men first began to resort there;" adding, "the towne itself of Bewdley is sett on the side of a hille, so comely that a man cannot wishe to see a towne better. It riseth from Severne banke by east, upon the hille by west, so that a man standing on the hille trans-pontem by east may discern ...
— Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway - Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from - Worcester to Shrewsbury • J. Randall
... to bee With a young mayde, fullest of love and sweetnesse, That ere display'd pure gold tresse to the winde;... Neere our abodes, and neerer were our hearts; Well did our yeares agree, better our thoughts; Together wove we netts t' intrapp the fish In flouds and sedgy fleetes[232]; together sett Pitfalls for birds; together the pye'd Buck And flying Doe over the plaines we chac'de; And in the quarry', as in the pleasure shar'de: But as I made the beasts my pray, I found My heart was lost, and made a ...
— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg
... of business is such that one day before the end of term he was told there was no cause or petition to be sett before him, a thing unparalleled, which he desired ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various
... of all my heill, My hairt on thee is sett; And evirmair to thee be leill Quhill I may leif but lett; Never to faill as utheris feill, Quhat grace that evir I gett.' 'Robin, with thee I will nocht deill; ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... Chichester, in his Repressor, written about 1449, combats "this opinioun, that a man which stale sumtyme a birthan of thornis was sett in to the moone, there ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley |
