"Ammonite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... piece then,' growled Fergus; 'and of course he thought it would be a sovereign, and so he can't pay me my two ten—shillings, I mean, that I lent him, and so I can't get the lovely ammonite I ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... reward (the usual course of this world), for his revival is a very fresh and pleasant spectacle, burning hot with enthusiasm. Whatever we do, he overdoes, till I recollect how Wilkes said he had never been a Wilkite. Three days ago, a portentous-looking ammonite attracted his attention; and whereas he started from the notion that earth was dirt, and stones were stones, the same all over the world, he has since so far outstripped his instructors, that as I write this he is drawing a plan of the strata, with the inhabitants dramatically arranged, ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge |
