"Pers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... would begin, "that's marryin' the Hempel boy next month? The one in 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 ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... (as pers. pron. of address used in earlier language and in poetry) modern {Sie}; {Herrn}, ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel
... indecl. indeclinable. indef. indefinite. infin. infinitive. interrog. interrogative. loc. locative. m. masculine. n. neuter. part. participle. pass. passive. perf. perfect. pers. personal. plur. plural. prep. preposition. pron. pronoun or pronominal. rel. relative. sing. ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... is dead, Pers. and Arab. grotesquely mixed: Europeans explain "Checkmate" in sundry ways, all ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... when the circumf'rence of trouble spreads. Bud Ingalls makes a pass at me pers'nal, an' by way of reeprisal I smashes a stewpan on him. Bud's head goes through the bottom, like the clown through them paper hoops in a cirkus, the stewpan fittin' down 'round his neck same as one of them Elizbethan ruffs. The stewpan ockyoopies so much of Bud's attention that I gets ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis
... fall, And the poore estate forget, In which that winter had it set: And than becomes the ground so proude, That it wol have a newe shroude, And maketh so queint his robe and faire, That it hath hewes an hundred paire, Of grasse and floures, of Ind and Pers, And many hewes full divers: That is the robe I mean, ywis, Through which the ground ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... its horrible and disgusting appearance. But with one before whom we hide our face, the Servant of God could not be compared; the comparison would, in that case, be weak.—[Hebrew: nbzh] is not the 1st pers. Fut. but Partic. Niph., "despised."—The close of the verse returns to its beginning, after having been, in the middle, established and ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg
... archaios nes], but if one of the two temples was no longer in existence, the name must belong to the other. It is just possible that in Hesychios, [Greek: Ecatompedos nes en te acropolis te Parthen cataskeuastheis upo Athenain, meixn tou empresthentos upa tn Persn posi penteconta], the expression [Greek: tou empresthentos upo tn Persn posi penteconta (ne or possibly Ecatompedon ne)] was originally chosen because the expression [Greek: archaiou ne] (which would otherwise be very ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various
... Teleutospore, also from analogies with the spores produced in the late summer by the wheat rust. The fungus which produces these uredospores and teleutospores was named and has been long distinguished as Coleosporium Senecionis (Pers.) We are not immediately interested in the damage done by this parasite to the weeds which it infests, and at any rate we might well be tempted to rejoice in its destructive action on these garden pests. It is sufficient to point out that the influence of the mycelium is to shorten ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 • Various
... Qadiri (a compend of Nachschabi's) is the one most frequently translated. The German translation: Toutinameh. Eine Sammlung pers. Maerchen, von C. J. L. Iken, mit einem Anhange von J. G. L. Kosegarten, Stuttgart, 1822, is easily found. The Turkish version is elegantly translated by G. Rosen: Tuti-nameh, das Papagaienbuch, eine Sammlung orientalischer Erzaehlungen nach der tuerkischen Bearbeitung ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... 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 drop o' ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson |
