"Low" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rescued seafarers on board she was terribly low in the water, and was filled in and out from both sides at once by the seas as they broke. Only a lifeboat could have lived, but even she resembled a floating baulk of timber, which is covered and swept by the seas on the same level as itself. Holding on for life to thwarts and ...
— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor
... fainting, shock, and heat exhaustion are very similar. The face is pale, the skin cool and moist, the pulse is weak, and generally the patient is unconscious. Keep the patient quiet, resting on his back, with his head low. Loosen the clothing, but keep the patient warm, and give stimulants (whisky, hot coffee, ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department
... room is full of curious mechanical toys, and cabinets, and carvings in ivory. Finally, we come to the library, contained in the two innermost rooms. The book shelves are painted white and reach to the low vaulted ceilings, which are whitewashed. At the end of a bookcase, in the corner of one of the windows, hangs a ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... still mourned her separation from her beloved sire. Her only solace was to sit in the phrasat of the Grand Palace, and look with longing toward her early home. Here, day after day, she sat with her maidens, weaving flowers, and singing low the songs of her childhood. When this became known abroad among the multitude, they gathered from every side to behold one so famed for her ...
— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens
... Book H, fo. 307b. The Lollards are said to have derived their name from a low German word lollen, to sing or chant, from their habit of chanting, but their clerical opponents affected to derive it from the Latin lolium, as if this sect were as tares among the true wheat ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe
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