"Pers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to git to stay on the heavenly ranch 'nless they believes an' builds a house to pray an' preach in. Right here I subscribes a hundred dollars to build a church, an' if airy one o' these yere fellers don' tote up accordin' to his means, O Lord, make it Your pers'n'l business to see that he wears the Devil's brand and ear mark an' never gits another ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson
... body of mainly civil but partly religious law, practically independent of the narrative. The style and contents of the code show that it is not all of a piece, but must have been of gradual growth. The 2nd pers. sing., e.g., sometimes alternates with the pl. in consecutive verses, xxii. 21, 22. Again, while some of the laws state, in the briefest possible words, the official penalty attached to a certain crime, xxi. 12, others are longer and introduce a religious sanction, ...
— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen
... border. confundir overwhelm, engulf, confuse, confound, mingle, heap up; —se be bewildered, be perplexed. confusin f. confusion, disorder. confuso, -a confused, dim, indistinct, bewildering. conjurar conjure, implore. conjuro m. conjuration, incantation. conmigo pron. pers. with me. conmover stir, affect. conocer know, be acquainted with, recognize; —se know each other. conque conj. so then, and so. conquistar conquer, subdue. conseguir attain, obtain, gain. consentido, -a spoiled. considerable ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... any such thing! You locked me in here on purpose! You had no right to do it, and my father will pers—persecute ...
— Two Little Women • Carolyn Wells
... part of the floor, opposed to the "liwan" or dais. Liwan Al-Aywan (Arab. and Pers.) the hall (including the dais and the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... the opposition to our organize-ation, is a young gen'l'man of fine talents and high character. I ain't got a word to say against him. The only trouble is, he lacks practical experience, and he ain't got no pers'nal magn'tism. Now I'm one of the people, I know what they want, and on that line I carried the ward against a combine-ation of all the wealth and aristocracy ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... the bank. She's exhibiting her trewsow at the Outagamie County Fair this week, for the handwork and embroid'ry prize. Ain't it brazen? They say the crowd's so thick around the table that they had to take down the more pers'nal pieces. The first day of the fair the grand-stand was, you might say, empty, even when they was pullin' off the trottin' races and the balloon ascension. It's funny—ain't it?—how them garmints that you wouldn't turn for a second look at on the clothesline or in a store winda' ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... [FN43] Arab. "Shazarwan" from Pers. Shadurwan, a palace, cornice, etc. That of the Meccan Ka'abah is a projection of about a foot broad in pent-house shape sloping downwards and two feet above the granite pavement: its only use appears ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... "hints of subjects and legends" which he received from various quarters, and occasionally used as a foundation of his fictitious compositions, or wove in the shape of episodes; and from these acknowledgments we select the following dram. pers.] ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, - Vol. 10, No. 283, 17 Nov 1827 • Various
... The .iiii. is the fainyng of a pers called Prosopographia, and is of .ii. sorts. Fyrst y^e descripci of a fained person, as Vyrgyl in the syxt of Eneid, faineth Sibil to be mad, & fayneth the persons in hell. An other forme is wh[en] we fayne pers, cmunicacion, or affecte of a man or of a beaste, to a dumme thynge, ...
— A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes • Richard Sherry |
