"Anthony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Farmer Anthony of Carne—great-grandfather of the present farmer—had been losing sheep. Now, not a man in the neighbourhood would own to having stolen them; so what so easy to suspect as witchcraft? Who so fatally open to suspicion as the two outlandish sisters? ...
— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... "St. Anthony save us, what eyes! How gem-like her little foot flies!" "These dancers should all be forbid To dance in the streets of Madrid." "If I were a monarch I'd own No other to sit on my throne!" Two scarlet streamers tie ...
— Old Spookses' Pass • Isabella Valancy Crawford
... superadded to a glorious physical structure, may we not always conclude a man rich in spirit and lusty impulses? Is it possible a gown and priestly hat can entirely suppress his human nature? I have heard of Anthony the Anchorite." ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace
... devilry!" Polunin declared, "and, do you know, there is another painter—Bosch. He has something more than devilry in him. You should see his Temptation of St. Anthony!" ...
— Tales of the Wilderness • Boris Pilniak
... was an Italian opera composer, whose music "shows great facility, but no invention." He also wrote several songs.] or Portogallo, [Footnote: Il Portogallo was the Italian sobriquet of a Portuguese musician named Mark Anthony Simao (1763-1829). He lived alternately in Italy and Portugal, and wrote several operas.] or some other Maestro di capella, or rather schiavo d'un primo uomo." [Footnote: Literally, "The slave of a primo uomo," primo uomo being the masculine form corresponding ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: German • Various
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