"Untried" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as it were, realise who and what my Heavenly Father was to me; and I had in my loneliness thought more of these things, and was learning more every day as I taught Dora; but it was dreadfully shallow, untried knowledge, and, unfortunately, I was the only person to whom Harold would talk. Mr. Smith's having been a clergyman had given him a distaste and mistrust of all clergy; nor do I think he was quite kindly treated ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... those "speechless eyes" with which her shade was once more to meet AEneas in the Elysian fields. But her wonderful energy forbids her to lie, like weaker women, crushed in her despair. She hurries her sister to the feet of her lover that nothing may be left untried. From the first she stakes her life on the issue; it is as one "about to die" that she prays AEneas not to leave her. When all has failed and hope itself deserts her the weariness of life gathers round and she "tires ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green
... Morning Chronicle, of the grant of L6,000—we say L10,000—a year, for the foundation of Catholic fellowships and scholarships in Trinity College. Some such change must be made, for it would be the grossest injustice to give Catholics a share, or the whole, of one or two new, untried, characterless Provincial Academies, and exclude them from the offices of the ancient, celebrated, and national University. If there is to be a religious equality, Trinity College must be opened, or augmented by ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis
... I suppose, that there is no possibility of doing anything new,—no way of branching out in some, better and untried direction?" asked Errington. ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... looked down on them, sleeping so peacefully in the green light, a wave of sadness swept over her, and she thought of them suddenly as fatherless, impoverished, and unprotected, dependent on her untried labour for their lives and their happiness. Then, before the anxiety could take possession of her mind, she put it from her, and whispered, "Courage!" as she turned away and went ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
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