"Cu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... himself, "If my brothers Cu and Kethan were here there might be a pretty fight, but as they are three to one I would do better to fly." Now there was a herd of wild swine near by; and Kian changed himself by druidic sorceries into a wild pig and fell to rooting up the ...
— The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland • T. W. Rolleston
... Odonata; in Agrionidae the cells included between the short sector (M 4 Comst.) and the upper sector of the triangle (Cu 1, Comst.), and between the quadrilateral (or quadrangle) and the vein ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... sound constitutional doctrine regarding both civil and ecclesiastical rights." Once, however, he mistook his mission. In the presence of a large congregation at Torwood he went so far as to excommunicate Charles the Second; the Dukes of York, Lauderdale, and Rothes; Sir Cu McKenzie and Dalziel of Binns. That these despots richly deserved whatever excommunication might imply can hardly be denied, but it is equally certain that prolonged and severe persecution had stirred up poor Cargill upon this ...
— Hunted and Harried • R.M. Ballantyne
... a cu'rus thing, Changes 'roun' de season, Meks you sad or meks you sing, 'Dout no urfly reason. Sometimes I go mopin' 'roun', Den agin I 's leapin'; Sperits allus up an' down Even when I ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... destruction that was done on Bodb Dearg and not on himself, and Lugh was not well pleased with his answer, and he went riding out of Teamhair westward. And presently he saw three armed men coming towards him, his own father Cian, with his brothers Cu and Ceithen, that were the three sons of Cainte, and they saluted him. "What is the cause of your early rising?" they said. "It is good cause I have for it," said Lugh, "for the Fomor are come into Ireland and have robbed Bodb Dearg; ...
— Gods and Fighting Men • Lady I. A. Gregory
... in a low garb.— But come, I'll serve thee; thou shalt be as free As air, despite the waters; let us hence: I'll show thee I am honest—(oh, thou jewel!) Thou shalt be furnished, Werner, with such means 350 Of flight, that if thou wert a snail, not birds[cu] Should overtake thee.—Let me gaze again! I have a foster-brother in the mart Of Hamburgh skilled in precious stones. How many Carats may it weigh?—Come, Werner, I ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... de cifris, cu{m} remeabis Occ{ur}rant si forte cifre; dum demps{er}is vnum Postea p{ro}cedas reliquas ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous
... significations, and those so distinctly marked, that the separation may be regarded as complete. Examples of this are the following: 'di/vers', and 'dive/rse'; 'co/njure' and 'conju/re'; 'a/ntic' and 'anti/que'; 'hu/man' and 'huma/ne'; 'u/rban' and 'urba/ne'; 'ge/ntle' and 'gente/el'; 'cu/stom' and 'costu/me'; 'e/ssay' and 'assa/y'; 'pro/perty' and 'propri/ety'. Or again, a word is pronounced with a full sound of its syllables, or somewhat more shortly: thus 'spirit' and 'sprite'; 'blossom' and 'bloom'{104}; 'personality' and 'personalty'; 'fantasy' and ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... Rais Ally," said Ted Flaggan, for it was he, "and it's close I kep' as long as I cu'd, which was aisy enough, seeing that ye brought me purvisions so riglar—like a good feller as ye are; but body o' me, man, I cudn't live in a cave all me lone for iver, an' I got tired o' lookin' out for that British fleet that niver comes, so I says to mesilf wan fine ...
— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne |
