"Lapland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the severity of the climate, as it was now the midst of summer in this part of the world, the 21st of December being here the longest day; and every thing might justly be dreaded from a phenomenon which, in the corresponding season, is unknown even in Norway and Lapland. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... Sabbath.[189] Both the Devonshire witches, Mary Trembles and Susanna Edwards, in 1682, stated that they saw him as a lion, by which they possibly meant a large cat.[190] In this connexion it is worth noting that in Lapland as late as 1767 the devil appeared 'in the likeness of a cat, handling them from their feet to their ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... winds which the earliest poet made the Grecian warrior bear for the protection of his fragile bark; or those which, in more modern times, the Lapland wizards sold to the deluded sailors—these, the unreal creations of fancy or of fraud, called at the command of science, from their shadowy existence, obey a holier spell: and the unruly masters of the poet and the seer become the obedient slaves of ...
— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage
... sent for that sort of mob Where Tartars and Africans hob-and-nob, And the Cherokee talks of his cab and cob To Polish or Lapland lovers— Cards like that hieroglyphical call To a geographical Fancy Ball ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... they not, that is fine and pleasant? I had my share of diverse ambitions, or diverse hopes, at least. You know the old Lapland song, in Longfellow: ...
— The Mystery of Murray Davenport - A Story of New York at the Present Day • Robert Neilson Stephens |
