"Arnold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... until ten days later, soon after dawn, that Robin set out on his melancholy errand. He rode out northward as soon as the gates were opened, with young "Mr. Arnold," a priest ordained with him in Rheims, and one of his party, disguised as a servant, following him on a pack-horse with the luggage. It was a misty morning, white and cheerless, with the early fog that had drifted up ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson
... United States. Sound philosophy and positive law are in perfect agreement on this subject. But it was not so a hundred years ago. It is wonderful to us now how strange and erroneous were the views of insanity formerly entertained by English jurists. For instance, when, in 1723, Arnold was tried for shooting at Lord Onslow, the instruction given to the court was that, for one to be exempt from punishment in such a case, "it must be a man that is totally deprived of his understanding and does not know what he is ...
— Moral Principles and Medical Practice - The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence • Charles Coppens
... Arnold once more. "I have, and I'm really much obliged to you, Father, for not trying to make me ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... "Sunnyside" find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong, the son of the owner, on the circular staircase. Following the murder a bank failure is announced. Around these two events is woven a plot ...
— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman
... sack. Then came in Sir W. Warren and another and staid a while with us, and then Sir Arnold Brames, with whom we staid late and till we had drank too much wine. So home and I to bed pleased at my afternoon's work in hanging up the shipp. So ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
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