"Seesaw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sendangxereco. Security (guarantee) garantiajxo. Sedan-chair portilo. Sedate serioza. Sedentary hejmsida. Sediment fecxo. Sedition ribelo. Seduce delogi. See vidi. See again revidi. See after zorgi pri. See to zorgi pri. See one's self sin vidi. Seesaw balancilo. Seed semo. Seedling kreskajxo. Seek sercxi. Seem sxajni. Seeming sxajna, versxajna. Seemly deca. Seer profeto. Seethe boli. Seize ekkapti. Seldom malofte. Select elekti. Selection elektaro. Self, or selves mem. Self-conceit tromemfido. Self-denial ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... Chinese language, we are indebted to the Christian Literature Society. At the sound of the head teacher's gong, all business ceases, and the girls proceed to the playground, where all enjoy swings, seesaw, ...
— The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's - The Story of the Work in Hwochow • A. Mildred Cable
... said Mabel, breathless on the seesaw's end. "I believe I like this better than pretending ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit
... that he feared this result. He pressed him to end the seesaw policy of the last six months. "These people are beaten owing to our faults, our half wishes, our half measures, and presently they will get out of the scrape and leave us to pay the price." As for Austria's forthcoming demand of Illyria, who would guarantee that ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... compromise. Knowledge and ignorance, such are the two irreconcilable terms of this problem. Between these two abysses we seem to see Louis XVIII reckoning up the felicities of the eighteenth century, and the unhappiness of the nineteenth. Seated in the centre of the seesaw, which he knew so well how to balance by his own weight, he contemplates at one end of it the fanatic ignorance of a lay brother, the apathy of a serf, the shining armor on the horses of a banneret; he thinks he hears the cry, ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part II. • Honore de Balzac
... bridge ladder and the travelling rings, that hung full of struggling and squirming humanity, groping madly for the next grip. No failure, no rebuff, discouraged them. Seven boys and girls rode with looks of deep concern—it is their way—upon each end of the seesaw, and two squeezed into each of the forty swings that had room for one, while a hundred counted time and saw that none had too much. It is an article of faith with these children that nothing that is "going" for their benefit ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis
... horse gathered up his four feet on the brink, took one vigorous leap, appearing for a second to hover over the water; then he fell lightly on the other side of the stream, with a seesaw movement, to which the intrepid Amazon accommodated herself by leaning far back. The rebound threw her forward a little, but she straightened ...
— Zibeline, Complete • Phillipe de Massa |
