"Morne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lowly hermitage it was, Down by a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people that did pass In traveill to and froe; a little wyde There was an holy Chappell edifyde, Wherein the hermite dewly wont to say His holy things, each morne and eventyde; Hereby a chrystall streame did gently play, Which from a sacred fountaine welled ...
— English Villages • P. H. Ditchfield
... self-control as to manners and morals. Now he lived in the years when the Caliph Harun al-Rashid was reigning in Baghdad-city, and it happened on a day of the days that this Commander of the Faithful awoke morne and melancholic, and right straitened was his breast. So he arose, and taking Ja'afar the Barmecide and Mastur the Eunuch passed with them into the place where his treasures were stored. Presently quoth he to the Wazir, "O Ja'araf, open to me this door that I may solace ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... To the which effect was chosen Mr. John Davidson; and Twesday next at nine houres in the morning appointed, in the new Kirk, for that effect: whereunto none is to resort, but the ministrie: the forme to bee advised the morne in privie conference." ...
— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland
... les febriles fantomes, Menant leur ronde vaste et morne, et tressautant Comme dans un rayon de soleil des atomes, ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... 5. Ne vous rendez point morne & de facheux abord; mais affable & prompt a rendre de bons offices, & soyez toujours le premier a saluer. Entendez bien ce que l'on vous dit & y respondez; Ne vous retirez point a l'ecart, quand le deuoir vous ...
— George Washington's Rules of Civility - Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway • Moncure D. Conway
... to Mount Orgueil, in order to obtain a panoramic view of the island-scenery. On one side the lofty ridge of the Morne Brabant, connected with the mainland only by a narrow neck of earth, stretches far out into the sapphire sea; near at hand rises the Piton de la Riviere Noire, the loftiest summit in the island, two thousand five ...
— The Story of Ida Pfeiffer - and Her Travels in Many Lands • Anonymous |
