"Jem" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... adventure in London, but a most delightful incident has happened since I came hither. We had just done tea on Friday, and Mrs. Hamilton, Kitty, Jem, and Mr. Crisp, were sitting down to cards, when we were surprised by an express from London, and it brought a "Whereas we think fit" from the Admiralty, to appoint Captain Burney to the command of the "Latona," during the absence of the Honourable ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... fact he had been a midshipman in the last two years of the Great War. Certainly he belonged to the old school rather than to the new. He had fought under Codrington at Navarino. He had talked with mighty men of the ring—Tom Cribb, Jem Mace, Belcher, Sayers. ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... the top of this she hangs some cat attraction, upon which the creature bounds and shows those wonderful antics that the artist has so marvellously reproduced in her painting. Mme. Ronner has two favorite models, "Jem" and "Monmouth." The last name is classical, since the cat of Mother ...
— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement
... ago I took a holiday; mouched, played truant from my road. Jem the waggoner hailed me as he passed—he was going to the mill— would I ride with him and come back ...
— The Roadmender • Michael Fairless
... finery at last, Alizon," said Elizabeth. "Your brother Jem has just run up to say that t' rush-cart has set out, and that Robin Hood and his merry men are comin' ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth |
