"Rase" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the middy, excitedly. "Here comes your rase chap, old wooden pegs. I'd nearly forgotten ...
— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn
... popes and bishops in our day is just the same. They are not satisfied with having excommunicated us again and again, and with having shed our blood, but they wish to blot out our memory from the land of the living, according to the description in the Psalm, "Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof," Ps 137, 7. Such hatred is not human but satanic. For all human hatred becomes mellow in time; at all events, it will cease after it has avenged our injury and gratified its passion. But ...
— Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II - Luther on Sin and the Flood • Martin Luther
... auld captain—as deid as ever was man 'at had nane left to greit for him. But thof there was nae greitin', no but sic a hullabaloo as rase upo' the discovery! They rade an' they ran; the doctor cam', an' the minister, an' the lawyer, an' the grave-digger. But whan a man's deid, what can a' the warl' du for 'im but berry 'im? puir hin'er en' thof it be to him' at draws himsel' up, an' blaws himsel' oot! There was mony a conjectur as ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... masses d'eau, les toise et les mesure, Les meprise en sachant qu'il en est ecrase, Soumet son ame au poids de la matiere impure Et se sent mort ainsi que son vaisseau rase. —A de certains moments, l'ame est sans resistance; Mais le penseur s'isole et n'attend d'assistance Que de la forte ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Rase out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs ...
— Tales • George Crabbe
... that I could wish you would be so generous to think no more of what you seem to pursue with such earnestness and haste. But lest I should retain any sort of former love for Philander, whom I am impatient to rase wholly from my soul, I grant you all you ask, provided you will be discreet in the management: Antonet therefore shall only be trusted with the secret; the outward gate you shall find at twelve only shut to, and Antonet wait you at the stairs-foot ...
— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn
... causeles words of wrath, Should ere defile so faire a mouth as thine: Are not we both sprong of celestiall rase, And banquet as two Sisters with the Gods? Why is it then displeasure should disioyne, Whom kindred ...
— The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage • Christopher Marlowe
... dwelleth in a world of old romance, Magic emprise and faery chevisaunce. Tell her, that he who made thee, years ago, By northern stream and mountain, and where blow Great breaths from the sea-sunset, at this day One half thy fabric fain would rase away; But she must take thee faults and all, my Verse, Forgive thy better and forget thy worse. Thee, doubtless, she shall place, not scorned, among More famous songs by happier minstrels sung;— ...
— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson
... prisoners, by the Frenchmen, and sente to the Louure at Paris. The Scottes hearing tell of their discomfiture, and how the marches were destitute of a gouernour, they speedely sente thether an armie, with intente to take the Countesse prisoner, to rase her Castle, and to make bootie of the riches that was there. But the Earle of Sarisburie before his departure, had giuen so good order, that their successe was not such as they hoped: for they wer so liuely repelled by them that wer within, as not able to endure their furie, in steede of making ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter
... n'en sois [80] jamais separe—pas separe eternellement, he repeats, or makes that strange sort of MS. amulet, of which his sister tells us, repeat for him. Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. It is table rase he is trying to make of himself, that He might reign there absolutely alone, who, however, as he was bound to think, had made and blest all those things he declined to accept. Deeper and deeper, then, he retreated ...
— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater
... in the village, but zu Pfeiffer's spies had afforded him practically correct information. He gave the headman the right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his village, if ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... oiseau d'bne induisant ma triste imagination au sourire, par le grave et svre dcorum de la contenance qu'il eut: Quoique ta crte soit chue et rase, non! dis-je, tu n'es pas pour sr un poltron, spectral, lugubre et ancien Corbeau, errant loin du rivage de Nuit—dis-moi quel est ton nom seigneurial au rivage plutonien de Nuit. Le Corbeau dit: ...
— Le Corbeau • Edgar Allan Poe |
