"Dree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going; she was callous. The tie between them was being annulled by misery. She was ceasing to be his mother, he to be her son; they were not younger and older, they were the equal victims of necessity. Fate set each of them apart to dree a separate weird. ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... I of parting dree * When all my hiddens show for man to see; Passion and longing, pine and lowe o' love * Descend surcharged on the head of me: God help the days that sped as branches lopt * I spent in Garden of Eternity.[FN246] And ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... manifest frowardness to leave me in this pit draining the agony of death and dight to look upon mine own doom, whereas it lieth in thy power to deliver me from my stowre?" [476] Or this: "O rare! an but swevens [477] prove true," from "Kamar-al-Zalam II." Or this "Sore pains to gar me dree," from "The Tale of King Omar," or scores of others that could ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... nae man an injury, They had na robbed, they had na slain, In pledge were they laid for the Border peace, In the Bishop's castle to dree their pain. ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
... "So now he hass rooms—dree rooms—and many people are to take dem, and to-morrow I go to show how one must hold all de tails, and dere is vork, all I can do; and ven money iss come I dink to go avay, but not soon, for I must help some ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... Russian-Italian-French brain got around things, he up with his hands and ran them through his long grey hair and wagged his head, and said, 'Me, I understand! Me, I don't blay money when I holiday, but me, I blay for unfortunate beeples. I blay dree times.' Oh, it ...
— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson
... speak o' wiles in woman's smiles, An' ruin in her e'e; I ken they bring a pang at whiles That 's unco sair to dree; But mind ye this, the half-ta'en kiss, The first fond fa'in' tear, Is, heaven kens, fu' sweet amends, An' tints ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... mine blace and bay me to-morrow, Mr. Morley," said Bergman. "Oxcuse me dat I dun you on der street. But I haf not seen you in dree mont'. Pros't!" ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
... time, iii. 141. Man is known among men as his deeds attest, ix. 164. Man wills his wish to him accorded be, iv. Many whose ankle rings are dumb have tinkling belts, iii. 302. Masrur joys life made fair by all delight of days, nil. 234. May Allah never make you parting dree, May coins thou makest joy in heart instil, ix. 69. May God deny me boon of troth if I, viii. 34. May that Monarch's life span a mighty span, ii.75. Mazed with thy love no more I can feign patience, viii. 321. Melted pure gold in silvern bowl to drain, v. 66. Men and dogs together ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... answered promptly, "Yes, thik there gentleman, what's stoppin' at the Talbot Arms. And another gentleman, too; o'ny t'other one come after and went t'other way round. A big zart o' a gentleman wi' 'ands vit vor two. He axed me the zame question, had anybody gone by. This is dree of 'ee as has come zince I've been ...
— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen
... the ould gaame. When I wos comin' 'ome from St. Eve two or dree 'ours agone, I 'eared young Nick plannin' ...
— The Birthright • Joseph Hocking
... fearless Little Red Hen had already clapped into her own bill—just like this! So let the Banshees howl, the Weird Sisters Dree their Weird—for Only Three Grains of Corn, Alfy! Only Three Grains of Corn!" cried Monty, passing his empty plate; "and I'll grind them in a mill that'll beat the Hen's all hollow! while ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond
... is rightly written: I have slain a spotless wife, And will dree a heavy penance—yield the law my forfeit life; Come the judgment, I will meet it; and the torture shall not tear Word from me to make a beggar of my rightful, ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various
... back be at the wa', And tho' he be the fautor; Altho' my back be at the wa', Yet, here's his health in water. O wae gae by his wanton sides, Sae brawlie's he could flatter; Till for his sake I'm slighted sair, And dree the kintra clatter: But tho' my back be at the wa', And tho' he be the fautor; But tho' my back be at the wa', Yet ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns |
