"Proctor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all—the Penfields, father and son, tall and lean with bony faces and sandy hair and eyebrows, and restless, pale blue eyes—Squire Land, small and ascetic, his lips constantly puckered as though he had tasted something unpleasant. Captain Proctor, stouter than when I had seen him last, with the benign good nature that comes of settled affairs and good living. Over them and over the town, those eight years had passed with ...
— The Unspeakable Gentleman • John P. Marquand
... blame: No cause hast thou to blush for thy sweet task. "Marcian Colonna" is a dainty book; And thy "Sicilian Tale" may boldly pass; Thy "Dream" 'bove all, in which, as in a glass, On the great world's antique glories we may look. No longer then, as "lowly substitute, Factor, or PROCTOR, for another's gains," Suffer the admiring world to be deceived; Lest thou thyself, by self of fame bereaved, Lament too late the lost prize of thy pains, And heavenly tunes ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... went to parson White's, at Cocker, where he found Justice Proctor: here he passed for an unfortunate sailor, who had been cast away coming from the Baltic, and was now travelling to his native place, Tintagel, in Cornwall. Parson White asked who was minister there, he replied, ...
— The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew • Unknown
... that with movables of great antiquity, which, with the pieces of chivalric armour hanging upon the walls, greatly contributed to the general effect of the whole. After a very hospitable reception from the late Peter Proctor, Esq., then seneschal of the castle, in Lord Strathmore's absence, I was conducted to my apartment in a distant corner of the building. I must own, that as I heard door after door shut, after my conductor had retired, I began to consider myself too ...
— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott
... of his conversion, Hudson Taylor quotes James Proctor's well-known hymn—the hymn that, in one of his essays, Froude criticizes ...
— A Handful of Stars - Texts That Have Moved Great Minds • Frank W. Boreham
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