"Merging" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seemed to be shaking yet with the vibration of that deadly struggle. Conrad and Conradin were left, and Manfred, the favourite son of Frederick, but their reigns were short and desperate, and when they, too, had passed the Middle Ages were merging into another era. The "two swords" of Papacy and Empire were still to pierce and wound, but the struggle between them would never seem so mighty after the spirit had fled which inspired Conradin, last of ...
— Heroes of Modern Europe • Alice Birkhead
... have been significantly shown in two great national conventions. I accept it as one of the happiest circumstances connected with this affair that in allying my political fortunes with yours—or, rather, for the time merging mine in yours—my heart goes with my head, and that I carry to you not only political support, but personal and devoted friendship. I can but regard it as somewhat remarkable that two men of the same age, entering Congress at the ...
— Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 1, October, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various
... herself any contemplation of that other part of life where thought constructs a destiny which is independent of human beings. As Denham spoke, she followed his words and considered their bearing with an easy vigor which spoke of a capacity long hoarded and unspent. The very trees and the green merging into the blue distance became symbols of the vast external world which recks so little of the happiness, of the marriages or deaths of individuals. In order to give her examples of what he was saying, Denham led the way, first to the Rock Garden, ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... tide and the cloud waves toss, The reach of the long land merging: Where the still white surges part and cross The quivering vistas seem to be Of a lost land under the waves of a sea. O summit flower, what strange waves toss Below in the ...
— In the Great Steep's Garden • Elizabeth Madox Roberts
... day, just as the afternoon was merging into evening, "Bessie"—he always called her Bessie now—"I am going down to the black wattle plantation by the big mealie patch. I want to see how those young trees are doing. If you have done your cooking"—for she had been engaged in making a cake, as young ...
— Jess • H. Rider Haggard
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