"Redoubted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... experience of the five preceding days had taught him all the caution that experience only can teach, we cannot determine; but, to the surprise of all the spectators, and to the lively joy of Oliver, the redoubted Holloway was brought, after an obstinate struggle, fairly to the ground. Every body sympathized with the generous victor, who immediately assisted his fallen adversary to rise, and offered his hand in token of reconciliation. ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... At that redoubted name—the name of one of the boldest warriors, and of the most accomplished freebooter of his time—even Martino's cheek grew pale, and his followers uttered ...
— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... Sniggius came down, and gave him a long chapter of the Book of Proverbs—chiefly upon loyalty, in the Septuagint, to learn by heart, and translate into Latin and English as his Saturday's and Sunday's occupation, under pain of a flogging, which was no light thing from the hands of that redoubted dominie. ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge
... surrounded themselves with schools of mechanical tricksters, learning their stale tricks with blundering avidity. They had fallen—before the days of photography—into providers of frontispieces for housekeepers' pocket-books. I do not know if photography itself, their redoubted enemy, has even now ousted them from that ...
— Ariadne Florentina - Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving • John Ruskin
... went slashing here and there, As one who well in battle knew how himself to bear. Well prov'd the noble Ruedeger in that day's bloody fight, That never handled weapon a more redoubted knight. ...
— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb
... war: he has laid about him with an inexpressible fury, and like the offended Marius of ancient Rome, made such havoc among his countrymen, as must be the work of two or three ages to repair. It must be confessed, the redoubted Mr. Buckley[226] has shed as much blood as the former; but I cannot forbear saying (and I hope it will not look like envy) that we regard our brother Buckley as a Drawcansir,[227] who spares neither friend nor foe, but generally ...
— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken |
