"Whatso" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so that I might remain chaste and honest, quotha! none save himself might have connexion with me. But I have lain under as many of my kind as I please, and this wretched Jinni wotteth not that Des tiny may not be averted nor hindered by aught, and that whatso woman willeth the same she fulfilleth however man nilleth. Even so saith ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... away the fighting men by the side of Mirkwood-water, and the throng of the stay-at-homes melted slowly from the meadow and trickled along through the acres to the habitations of the Wolfings, and there they fell to doing whatso of work or play came ...
— The House of the Wolfings - A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse • William Morris
... hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here,—this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for Me but now; This crust is My body broken for thee; This water His blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need: Not what we give, but what we share,— For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,— Himself, his ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck
... I wot of a knight, fair and valiant and wise, who will love thee with a good will; a much rich man is he, and fairer by far than the coward recreant who hath left thee. And if ye dare love ye may have whatso ye dare ask; and so much joy shall ye have as never lady had more." So much spake the carline by her words that the needle of nature stirred somewhat. The lady asked who the knight might be. "Who is it, lady? A-God's name! I may well name him. It ...
— Old French Romances • William Morris
... the bitterest wrong, the woe Least bearable by woman, worst of all That man might lay upon her? Nay, thou art slow: Speak: though thou speak but folly. Silent? Call To mind whatso thou hast ever heard of ill Most monstrous, that should turn to fire and gall The milk and blood of maid or mother—still Thou shalt not find, I think, what he hath done - What I endure, and die not. For my will It is that ...
— Locrine - A Tragedy • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... second woman, giving a friendly push to the first. "Keep a civil tongue in thine head, prithee, as whatso thy thoughts be." ...
— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt
... Whatso be the fantasy of the moment, after it he goes; and never stays him to think what is like to come thereof, far less what might come. But that which causes me fear more for him than Walter, is the matter of friends. Walter was not one to run after folks; he was ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... carnations stood She fancied richer hues might be, Scents rarer than the purple hood Curled over in the fleur-de-lis. Small skill in learned names had she, Yet whatso wealth of land or sea Had ever stored her memory, She decked its varied imagery Where, in the highest of the row Upon a sill more white than snow, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various |
