"Mediaevally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... words hover like enchanted bees. Death is one of them. Mediaevally it was represented by a skeleton to which prose had given a rictus, poetry a scythe, and philosophy wings. From its eyries it swooped spectral and sinister. Previously it was more gracious. In Greece it resembled Eros. Among its attributes was beauty. It did not alarm. ...
— The Lords of the Ghostland - A History of the Ideal • Edgar Saltus
... the clear dawn on their way to Happy's apartment—a variable abode. It may be that the stranger perceived what Happy did not; the three bluecoats in the perspective; at all events, he now put into words of simple strength the unfavorable conception he had formed of Joe. The result was mediaevally immediate, and the period of Mr. Cory's convalescence in the hospital was almost half that of his sponsor's detention in the ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington |
