"Arthur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have been thought of by me, I have made proposals for marrying you to the daughter of our neighbour, Sir Arthur Onslow." ...
— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest
... is Middle Moor, containing about 2,500 acres, spoken of by Arthur Young as 'a watery desert,' growing sedge and rushes, and inhabited by frogs and bitterns;—it is now fertile, ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring
... such men as Professor Hewitt of the Smithsonian Institution, Francis La Flesche of the same, and Arthur C. Parker of Albany, N. ...
— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman
... right, but our thoughts were more in the direction of bygone ages, with the exception of the letters that were waiting for us at the post office, and for which we did not forget to call. Merrie Carlisle, we were informed, was the chief residence of King Arthur, whose supposed ghostly abode and that of his famous knights, or one of them, we had passed earlier in the week. We were now told that near Penrith, a town to the south of Carlisle, there was still to be seen a large circle surrounded by a mound ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... this fail, will you resort to "the more potent powers of the bayonet?" You promptly and indignantly answer, "No." But, why will you not? Is it because the prominent opposers of that system have more moral worth—more religious horror of blood—than Arthur Tappan, William Jay, and their prominent abolition friends? Were such to be your answer, the public would judge, whether the men of peace and purity, who compose the mass of abolitionists, would be more likely than the Clays and Wises and the great body of ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
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