"Adviser" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... felt, to be what she had prayed to be; else her prayer would be but a mockery, and Elizabeth was in earnest. "What a full-grown fair specimen he is of his class," she thought, her mind recurring again to her adviser and exemplar; "and I — a poor ignorant thing in the dark, groping for a bit of light to begin!" — The tears gathered again; she opened the ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner
... incidents; and the notion seems probable. In that tale a young gallant falls in love with a jealous old doctor's wife, who is also young, and really encourages the illicit passion. The gallant, not knowing the doctor, takes him for confidant and adviser in the prosecution of his suit, and is thus thwarted in all his plans. The naughty wife conceals her lover, first in a basket of feathers, then between some partitions of the house, and again in a box of deeds and valuable papers. If the Poet had any other obligations, they have not ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson
... of history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, witness of the past, example and adviser of the present, ...
— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... relative to the composition of the work may here be added. In the execution of the great task, he expresses himself, (II. 278), as under the greatest obligations to his colleague, friend, and literary adviser, Bishop:— ...
— The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 • Sebastian Brandt
... some time past we had been inseparable companions; and notwithstanding the reckless and wild gayety of his conduct, I had ever found him ready to assist me in every difficulty, and that with an address and dexterity a more calculating adviser might not have possessed. I was now utterly alone; for though Monsoon and the adjutant were still in Lisbon, as was also Sparks, I never could make ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
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