"Unarm" Quotes from Famous Books
... The delight of having found a kindred soul to which to cling in the midst of torment, a tender and sure refuge in which to breathe again while the fluttering heart beats slower! No longer to be alone, no longer never to unarm, no longer to stay on guard with straining, burning eyes, until from sheer fatigue he should fall into the hands of his enemies! To have a dear companion into whose hands all his life should be ... — Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... SOREL. Unarm thyself! Put off this coat of mail! The God of Love Fears to approach a bosom clad in steel. Oh, be a woman, ... — The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... young Lochinvar is come out of the West! Through all the wide Border his steed is the best; And save his good broadsword he weapon had none; He rode all unarm'd and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight ... — The Children's Garland from the Best Poets • Various
... voyage draws near a close, For Death broods voiceless in the darkening sky; Subsides the breeze; the untroubled waves repose; The scene is peaceful all. Can Death be nigh, When thus, mute and unarm'd, his vassals lie? Mark ye that cloud! There toils the imprisoned gale; E'en now it comes, with voice uplifted high; Resound the shores, harsh screams the rending sail, And roars th' amazed wave, and bursts ... — My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... Engaging. But France still went upon the old Politick Scheme to gain Advantages upon the Continent by dilatory Proceedings in King James's Affairs; for unless this was their Prospect, was it not a supine Piece of Management to suffer a Body of near Thirty Thousand brave Men to lie unarm'd in the Field above half a Year, when France had Magazines and Stores to furnish above a Million of Soldiers? But as King James was not only to be the Dupe of their great Monarch, but the Sport and ... — Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) • Daniel Defoe |