"Pied" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been caught in the fields after it had come to its full colours. In about a year it began to look dingy; and, blackening every succeeding year, it became coal-black at the end of four. Its chief food was hemp- seed. Such influence has food on the colour of animals! The pied and mottled colours of domesticated animals are supposed to be owing to high, various, and ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White
... the twain Thou didst bestow Leafy bowers in pleasaunce fair: Where spring's scents for aye did blow, And four stately streams did flow O'er meads pied ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
... on the road, you mean,' said John Thresher. 'Na, na, he's come to settle nigh a weedy field, if you like, but his crop ain't nigh reaping yet. Hark you, Mary Waddy, who're a widde, which 's as much as say, an unocc'pied mind, there's cockney, and there's country, and there 's school. Mix the three, strain, and throw away the sediment. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... de pied planted a heel against one of the man's shins, and his onslaught faltered in a gust of curses. Then the point of his jaw received the full force of Lanyard's right fist with all the ill will imaginable behind it. ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... people are influenced by a Pied Piper kind of fellow who calls himself a conjurer, and is rather ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke
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