"Grete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hear 'em scrattlin' round!" replied the farmer. "They're gret fools, hens are,—greter than folks, as a rule; an' that is sayin' a ...
— Queen Hildegarde • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... Course of last night to the (1) Commencement of a blue Clay Bluff of 180 or 190 feet high on the L. S. Those Bluffs appear to have been laterly on fire, and at this time is too hot for a man to bear his hand in the earth at any debth, gret appearance of Coal. An emence quantity of Cabalt or a Cristolised Substance which answers its discription is on the face of the Bluff- Great quantities of a kind of berry resembling a Current except double the Sise and Grows on a bush like a Privey, and the ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... nothin', An' you've no idee how much bother it saves; We aint none riled by their frettin' an' frothin', We're used to layin' the string on our slaves," Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he;— Sez Mister Foote, "I should like to shoot The holl gang, by the gret horn spoon!" sez he. ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 4 (of 4) • Various
... richt gret, Luiks ower the castle wa'; Lord Archibold rides oot at the yett, Ahint him his ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... feels the lift Of a gret instinct shoutin' "Forwards!" An' knows thet freedom ain't a gift Thet tarries long in han's o' cowards! Come, sech ez mothers prayed for, when They kissed their cross with lips thet quivered, An' bring fair wages for brave men, A nation ...
— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam
... 'a' forgot she and Will Price was keepin' comp'ny when that gun went off and shot him. She don't never say much—Rache don't—but she's gret to remember. And she ain't lookin' for beaux yet, I can ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... island where he saw a man plowing in the fields. And the wonder was, that the man was calling familiar words to his oxen, "such wordes as men speken to bestes in his owne lond." Startled by the sound of his mother tongue he turned back on his course "in gret mervayle, for he knewe not how it myghte be." But if he had passed on a little, says the old record, "he would have founden his contree and ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
... overal; Savour no more than thee bihove shal; Werk[77] wel thyself, that other folk canst rede; And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede. Tempest[78] thee noght al croked to redresse, In trust of hir[79] that turneth as a bal: Gret reste stant in litel besinesse; And eek be war to sporne[80] ageyn an al[81]; Stryve noght, as doth the crokke with the wal. Daunte[82] thyself, that dauntest otheres dede; And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede. That thee ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long
... Ector of Troy for al his cheualry Alexander the grete & myghty conqueroure Iulyus Cezar {with} al his companye Dauyd nor Iosue nor worthy Artur Charlis the noble that was so gret of honour Nor Iudas Machabee for al his trew herte Nor Godfrey of Boleyn coud ...
— The Assemble of Goddes • Anonymous |
