ALTOGETHER • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Altogether

"Altogether" Quotes from Famous Books

... for cooking and washing and cleaning—she may now dash as many pailfuls over her brick floors as she likes. Then the clear, swift current begins to diminish, and scarcely have you had time to notice the change than it is altogether gone! The women must go back to the well and let the bucket down, and laboriously turn and turn the handle of the windlass till it mounts to the top again. The pretty moist, green herbage, the graceful grasses, quickly wither away; dust and straws ...

— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson

... fall upon and rend those who told them so as impious liars, or, if they could be made to believe it, they would no longer hold to any religion, and in their rage might tear down the temples, abolish the order of priesthood altogether, spread tumult and havoc through the land, rebel against all authority, destroy with one blow all the power ...

— The Cat of Bubastes - A Tale of Ancient Egypt • G. A. Henty

... not what you are thinking of; but for my part I wish for no such friendship as may not be altogether according to my honour and ...

— French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France • Marie de France

... to me that I cannot better close this altogether unworthy sketch of Dr. Talmage than by offering the reader as a parting remembrance, in its simple ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... innate superiority of private enterprise over State management. If continental bureaucracy and centralization be fraught with multitudinous evils, surely English beadleocracy and parochial obstruction are not altogether lovely. If it be said that, as a matter of political experience, it is found to be for the best interests, including the healthy and free development, of a people, that the State should restrict itself to what is absolutely ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

More quotes...