"Waite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dashing young man-about-town. The way he took his gloves off was worth a fortune in itself. We felt that there must be many degrees of blue blood in his veins. His back-chat repartee was far better than that of Mr. F. E. Smith, K.C. If Gill and Waite are in the future ever in need of a berth they should, judging by their performances in this play, apply to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree for parts as a dilapidated charwoman and unwashed office-boy respectively. ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
... injure him if I did not beare him the true witnesse of having served me with as much fidelity and courage as any, not without much good successe; though some crosse accydents of late hath made him (not without reason) desire to waite upon thee, it being needfull that I should give him this testimony, least his journey to thee ...
— The Forest of Dean - An Historical and Descriptive Account • H. G. Nicholls
... that the Saints are these trumpets, and harpes, and Cymbals, and that their [em]members make this musicke to the Lord, our eyes praies the Lord, while they be [en]lifted vp vnto their maker in heauen, and waite vpon his mercy: our tongues praise the Lord, in singing [eo]Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs vnto the Lord: our eares praise the Lord, while they [ep]heare the word of God with attention: our hands praise the Lord, while they be [eq]stretched ...
— An Exposition of the Last Psalme • John Boys
... in this field of esoteric teaching and method, certainly the greatest now living, is Arthur Edward Waite, to whom it is a pleasure to pay tribute. By nature a symbolist, if not a sacramentalist, he found in such studies a task for which he was almost ideally fitted by temperament, training, and genius. Engaged in business, but not absorbed by it, years of quiet, leisurely toil ...
— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton
... who led off with a clairvoyant experience in his law practice. I began to be reassured. Mr. Carlisle followed with a most mathematical account of some hobgoblins he had encountered in his law practice. Finally the Chief Justice, Mr. Waite, related a series of incidents so fantastic and incredible, yet detailed with the precision and lucidity of a master of plain statement, as fairly to stagger the most believing ghostseer. Then I said to myself ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... accomplish both purposes. The sequel appeared four years later, in 1886, when the case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad brought the question before the Court. At this time Mr. Chief Justice Waite announced the opinion of himself and his colleagues that a corporation was a "person" within the meaning of the Amendment and thus ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley
... tremendous hail of musketry, advanced to the ditch, only twenty-five yards from the work. There a ball knocked him down; it was his luck to be shot or bayoneted in every battle. Martin Scott took the command, but as he ordered the men forward he rolled lifeless into the ditch. Major Waite, the next in rank, had hardly seen him fall before he too was disabled. By whole companies the men were mowed down by the Mexican shot; but they stood their ground. At length some one gave the word to fall back, and the remnants of the brigade obeyed. Many wounded were left on the ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne
... other accident, made him to lose a day, in his account of the weeke, so as he would not beleeue, but that Svnday was Saterday, Saterday Friday, &c. To Sir William he bare such faithfulnesse, that hee would follow his horse, like a spanyell, without regard of way or wearinesse, waite at his chamber doore, the night time, suffering none to come neere him, and performe whatsoeuer hee commanded, were it neuer so unlawfull, or dangerous. On a time, his master, expecting strangers, sent him, with a panier, to his cater at the sea side, ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew |
