"Fixer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fixer aux deservans des cultes respectifs, les heures des prieres et des ceremonies, en regularisant d'une maniere equitable et definitive ce point qui a ete souvent un sujet de litige et qui a meme occasionne des rixes scandaleuses dans l'enceinte d'un Temple, ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... poilu, levant la tte derrire son parapet, se mit, dans la nuit froide de dcembre, fixer une toile qui brillait au ciel d'un feu trange. Son cerveau commena remeur de lointaines penses; son coeur se fit plus lger, comme s'il voulait monter vers l'astre; ses lvres frmirent doucement pour laisser passer ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... it would raise a yell you might fancy came from a fog-horn's throttle, If it wasn't for that there soothing-syrup I've artfully smuggled into its bottle. It's strongish stuff, and I've dropped enough in the Babby's gruel to prove a fixer; For this kid's riot you cannot quiet with LAWSON'S Cordial or ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 17, 1890. • Various
... l'annee, et dont l'odeur suave penetre jusqu'a l'ame, et inspire la volupte la plus seduisante. Il n'est point de voyageur qui en se promenant dans les campagnes de Malacca, ne se sente invite a fixer son sejour dans un lieu si plein d'agremens, dont la nature seule a fait tous les frais. Voyages d'un Philosophe ...
— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden
... questionings, and the steady low tones of the woman. A man could ask little more of the world than to lead a child thus.... Perhaps they were poor. Boylan would have liked to fix that. It had to do with the whole inner ideal of the man to be a fixer of such things—to come home to a house of little ones in quantity and many women—a broad house of aunts, sisters and old women, a long broad table of all ages, the many problems resting on him—and one woman looking straight across.... She would know everything, and yet would advise with him—quiet ...
— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort |
