"Securer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for a man in my place; and in discourse, though I have no mind to the other, did bring in Tom Hater to be the fittest man in the world for it, which, he took good notice of. But in the whole I was mightily pleased, reckoning myself fifty per cent. securer in my place than I did before think myself to be. By water with my brother as high as Fulham, talking and singing, and playing the rogue with the Western bargemen about the women of ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... importance of Timbuctoo to the traders of Barbary, and consequently of a great portion of its fame amongst us, its frontier situation on the verge of the desert, at the extreme northern limits of the negro population, will of necessity have a contrary operation now, since a shorter and securer channel for European enterprise into the central regions of Africa has been opened by the intrepidity and perseverance of Park, from the south-western shores of ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish
... kept, there we find the giving out of work from the factory absolutely forbidden, the home guarded from the entrance of the contractor, motherhood respected, babyhood defended from the outrage of child labor, and a higher standard of living secured for the family by the higher and securer earnings of the ...
— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry
... word, is the true foundation from which to build up the structure of good habit. The young should be led to practise the elementary parts of right conduct from the desire to please, because that is a securer basis than the conclusions of an embryo reason, applied to the most complex conditions of action, while the grounds on which action is justified or condemned may be made plain in the fulness of time, when the understanding ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... he could not stay— Too rare a gift? Yet who could hold A treasure with securer hold Than I, to whom love ...
— Fires of Driftwood • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay |
