"Monster" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... monster," Lady Allonby replied, "that I would entertain the same objection to seeing ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell
... The monster streets leap rivers, span sea-ways, with bridges of stone, bridges of steel. Far as the eye can reach, a bewilderment of masts, a web-work of rigging, conceals the shores, which are cliffs of masonry. Trees in a forest stand less thickly, branches in a forest mingle less closely, ...
— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn
... of his travelling companions announced that they had already reached Madrid, Manuel was filled with genuine anxiety. A red dusk flushed the sky, which was streaked with blood like some monster's eye; the train gradually slackened speed; it glided through squalid suburbs and past wretched houses; by this time, the electric lights were gleaming pallidly above the ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... by the Indians On-ti-o-ras, or mountains of the sky, as they sometimes seem like clouds along the horizon. This range of mountains was supposed by the Indians to have been originally a monster who devoured all the children of the red men, until the great spirit touched him when he was going down to the salt lake to bathe, and here he remains. "Two little lakes upon the summit were regarded the eyes of the monster, and these are open all the summer; but ...
— The Hudson - Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention • Wallace Bruce
... a monster, The fool of passion and the slave of sin. No laws can curb him when the will ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 377, June 27, 1829 • Various
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