"Ubiquity" Quotes from Famous Books
... fixed and central, the county court; and a movable court, the sheriff's turn. He thus represented both unity and ubiquity. He might as judge be aided and informed on legal questions by the serjeant of the coif, called sergens coifae, who is a serjeant-at-law, and who wears under his black skull-cap a fillet ... — The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
... commended for parts, for ubiquity, for consistency, for fidelity, is in favor of war, his curious valuation of principle. Cabbage-heads, the, always in majority. Cabinet, English, makes a blunder. Caesar, tribute to, his veni, vidi, vici, censured for undue prolixity. Cainites, sect of, ... — The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... interrogation characterizes the seeming ubiquity of the voice of the cuckoo, and dispossesses the creature almost of a corporeal existence; the Imagination being tempted to this exertion of her power by a consciousness in the memory that the cuckoo is almost perpetually heard throughout the season of spring, but seldom ... — Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot |