"Mare" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rustling noise shook the curtains of the bed, and the next moment a tall figure in white glided across the room. It drew nearer, and Elinor, in spite of the wish she had just dared to whisper to herself, struggled with the vision, as a sleeper does with the night-mare, when the suffocating grasp of the fiend is upon his throat. Her presence of mind forsook her, and, with a shriek of uncontrollable terror, she flung herself across the bed, and endeavored to awaken her husband. The place he had occupied ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... What a man may call a woman, though a Pill may have suggested it. Sweethearts are dreams because they seldom come true; wives, because they're often a night-mare, and both because they ...
— The Foolish Dictionary • Gideon Wurdz
... worse for having been ploughed up by bullock teams, and worked into a slough which proved the discouragement of mining parties. Some were even months in traversing the comparatively small distance across the country to the goal they sought. But the attraction of money, which is said to make the mare go, enabled them to triumph at last over the obstacles that intervened. It was not long before our party began to understand the nature of the task they had undertaken. The cart sank up to the hubs in a bog, and the oxen stood still in ...
— In A New World - or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia • Horatio Alger
... I should not have fretted at my late breakfast and having to try Mr. Marshman's favourite mare, if I had known what good purpose the delay was to serve. I wish I could have been here ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... you said. I am set in the mare morto. I am built on the sea- weed. But from me you shall not go. You came over the ...
— Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories • Robert Herrick
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