"Answerer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... us put the case generally: whenever there is a question and answer, who is the speaker,—the questioner or the answerer? ...
— Alcibiades I • (may be spurious) Plato
... his side. When left quite alone, she went down on her knees beside him, and prayed for his deliverance with all her heart. Then she rose and sat down with a calm, contented look, muttering, "Yes; He is the hearer and answerer of prayer. ...
— The Island Queen • R.M. Ballantyne
... in thought to the river bank, picturing how it would have been if he had only patiently waited, giving a coo-ee now and again to keep in touch with the answerer. ...
— Queensland Cousins • Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
... the answerer; What can be answered he answers—and what cannot be answered, he shows how ...
— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman
... up and about again in perhaps a fortnight from this. You must pray for her healing to the Great Physician, as we all are doing: and pray in faith, for you know the Bible tells us he is the hearer and answerer of prayer." ...
— Elsie's Vacation and After Events • Martha Finley
... manner is, signified, many times, how much better it would content them that I should stay. As for the common approbation or dislike of that place, as now it is, that I should esteem or disesteem myself the more for that, too simple is the answerer, if he think to obtain with me. Of small practice were the physician who could not judge, by what she and her sister have of long time vomited, that the worser stuff she strongly keeps in her stomach, but the better she ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... prepared for. Every one is familiar with the proverbial distribution of parts in the asking and the answering of questions; but when the asker is no fool, but one of the sharpest-witted of mankind, asking with little consideration for the condition or the wishes of the answerer, with great power to force the answer he wants, and with no great tenderness in the use he makes of it, the situation becomes a trying one. Mr. Ward was continually forcing on Mr. Newman so-called irresistible inferences; "If you say so and so, ...
— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church
... petitions, and the Lord encouraged us by giving answers, so early and so definite, as could only have come from Himself, so that no room was left for the shadow of a doubt that God was the Hearer and Answerer of prayer. Once the answer came the same day, and at another time, whilst we were yet speaking. My friend often spoke of our agreement, to the glory of Him who fulfilled to us His promise, and I refer to it, to encourage others." This is but one leaf out of the ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... Rushworth's Collections, 23 shil's ster. The Civill wars of Great Britian till 1600, 4 mark. Charron upon Wisdome, 5 shill's 10 pence. Manchester al mondo, a mark. G. Burnet's Reply and 4 Conferences against the answerer, 3 shil. st. Walwood's maritime laws, given me by the provest Sir A. Ramsay. My Lord Foord's practiques, given me by the aird of Idingtoun. Thomas the Rymer's Prophecies, 4 pence. Reusneri Symbola Imperatoria, ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder |
