" It was one of Caleb's quaintnesses, that in his difficulty of finding speech for his thought, he caught, as it were, snatches of diction which he associated with various points of view or states of mind; and whenever he had a feeling of awe, he was haunted by a sense of Biblical phraseology, though he could hardly have given a strict quotation.
Brooke had gone into at one time, but that he was strikingly ready at seizing the points of the political situation, and dealing with them in that large spirit which, aided by adequate memory, lends itself to quotation and general effectiveness of treatment.
He assented to her expressions of devout feeling, and usually with an appropriate quotation; he allowed himself to say that he had gone through some spiritual conflicts in his youth; in short, Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding, sympathy, and guidance.
Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.
Ronaldson looked down with a slightly pious expression which indicated, I felt sure, that they thought the quotation was from Holy Writ.
'" murmured Valancy softly—it was of course a quotation from some book of John Foster's.
He looked enormously pleased over managing to work that quotation in at last.
Every boy he encountered added another ton to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a Scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost, forever and forever.
First, a quotation from writer Anais Nin: ",," "Dreams pass into the reality of action.
My own quotation collection is more hidden and delicate.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
You begin to see the wisdom in that quotation I have so often repeated to you:to thine own self be true.
In its concept image for the new polymer £5 notes the Bank correctly included double quotation marks around the former prime minister's famous saying: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry,their passions a quotation.
Each quotation here reflects on the qualities of a teacher.
() In this quotation, chicken is used to describe the young of the fowl, rather than the adult (chicken as a domestic fowl of any age is first found, according to current OED research, as late as the 19th century) – but the same verse is also one of the earliest recorded examples of hen (the adult female of the common fowl).
My own quotation collection is more hidden and delicate.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I am not exact in my quotation at this distance of time;but the spirit of one of the passages that I recollect was to the following purport,and thus did the teacher and his pupil proceed: .