"Behold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dragg'd him away, by a superior Force. The House was soon in a Blaze: When they had got at a convenient Distance, the Hermit, with an amazing Sedateness, turn'd back and survey'd the destructive Flames. Behold, said he, our fortunate Friend! In the Ruins, he will find an immense Treasure, that will enable him, from henceforth, to exert his Beneficence, and render his Virtues more and more conspicuous. Zadig, tho' astonish'd to the last Degree, attended him to their last Stage, which was ...
— Zadig - Or, The Book of Fate • Voltaire
... lost its irony, and she assumed a look of conciliation, which I was both surprised and rejoiced to behold. ...
— An Enemy To The King • Robert Neilson Stephens
... people are ready to tear out one another's eyes." As he was reasoning in this way, the waters rocked him gently on his plank, and he fell asleep. As he slept, the wind rose, the waves carried away the plank on which he was stretched out, and behold our youthful ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley
... sea captain came and asked Halvor if he hadn't a fancy to come with him and go to sea, and behold foreign lands. And Halvor had a fancy for that, so he was ...
— The Red Fairy Book • Various
... again: "'I am convinced that my interest in the company will yield me a competence; accordingly, behold me at ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
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