"Gaberdine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usury; Still have I borne it with a patient shrug; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe; You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help; Go to, then; you come to me and you say: Shylock, we would have monies; you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur— Over your threshold; monies is your ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
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... Charon there, Grim ferryman, stands sentry. Mean his guise, His chin a wilderness of hoary hair, And like a flaming furnace stare his eyes. Hung in a loop around his shoulders lies A filthy gaberdine. He trims the sail, And, pole in hand, across the water plies His steel-grey shallop with the corpses pale, Old, but a god's old age has left him ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
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... he never swears, Nor kicks intruders down his entry stairs, Though meekness plants his backward-sloping hat, And non-resistance ties his white cravat, Though his black broadcloth glories to be seen In the same plight with Shylock's gaberdine, Hugs the same passion to his narrow breast That heaves the cuirass on the trooper's chest, Hears the same hell-hounds yelling in his rear That chase from port the maddened buccaneer, Feels the same comfort while his acrid words Turn the sweet milk ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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