"Ro" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr. Butters, "I've got him here. 'Pears to be"—the strong old voice faltered for an instant—"'pears to be bust up some consid'able. I found him in the ro'd a piece back, with his velocipede tied up all over him. He ain't dead, nor he ain't asleep, but I can't git nothin' out of him, so I jest brung him along. I'll h'ist him out, ...
— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards
... consists of two concentric vessels having an annular space between them of a few centimeters. A worm, S, is placed in the internal vessel R. All this is of nickel plated copper. The worm, S carries, at Ro', an expansion cock and ends, at O in the annular space, R'. A very strong tube is fixed to the cock, Ro', and to the ajutage, A'. It receives the tube, Tu, which, at the time of an experiment, is coupled with the cylinder ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891 • Various
... signifies God (Teotl, properly Teo, for tl is only a termination), is found in the language of the Betoi of the Rio Meta. The name of the moon, in this language so remarkable for the complication of its grammatical structure, is Teo-ro. The name of the sun is Teo-umasoi. The particle ro designates a woman, umasoi a man. Among the Betoi, the Maypures, and so many other nations of both continents, the moon is believed to be the wife of the sun. But what is this root Teo? It appears to me very doubtful, that Teo-ro ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt
... be a fine thing for me, to haud fowk ohn seen me. But it was verra ill-bred to you, mem, I ken, to come throu your yaird ohn speirt leave. I beg yer pardon, mem, an' I'll jist gang back, and roon' by the ro'd. This is my fiddle I hae aneath my airm. We bude to pit back the case o' 't whaur it was afore, i' my grannie's bed, to haud her ohn kent 'at she had tint the ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... system of spelling would be laborious as well as futile, and so we shall in the future, as we have in the past, adhere to the more familiar forms of our grammar school copybooks. It would tire you to remember that DO meant b, TU o, and RO y, and that to say he-boy you must prefix the ape masculine gender sound BU before the entire word and the feminine gender sound MU before each of the lower-case letters which go to make up boy—it would tire you and it ...
— Jungle Tales of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... been with the real Moors, my London Caloro. Who knows more of the real Moors than myself? About forty years ago I was with my ro in Ceuta, for he was still a soldier of the king, and he said to me one day, 'I am tired of this place where there is no bread and less water, I will escape and turn Corahano; this night I will kill my sergeant and flee to the camp of the Moor.' 'Do so,' said I, 'my chabo, and as soon ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... it out of her! They'll take it out of her! Poor little Ro! Won't she hate it, and won't it do her good!" he said to himself, shrewdly. "And, after the first, I shouldn't wonder if she became a ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... early days by the interpreters, either through ignorance of the language, or for the purpose of ridicule. The name which they themselves acknowledge, and they recognize no other, is in their language Ap-sah-ro-kee, which ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman |
