"8th" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1: The 1st, 8th, and 9th stanzas of this poem are in octosyllabic verses, and the rest in hendecasyllabic verses of both classes, with heptasyllabic verses alternating. A refrain of dissyllabic verse begins at the close of the 3d stanza and recurs ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... On the 8th November, 1576, Elizabeth or Bessie Dunlop, spouse to Andro Jak, in Lyne, in the Barony of Dalry, Ayrshire, was accused of sorcery and witchcraft and abuse of the people. Her answers to the interrogatories of the judges or prosecutors ...
— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott
... Thackeray asks, "could be expected from a wedding which had such a beginning—from such a bridegroom and such a bride? Malmesbury tells us how the Prince reeled into the Chapel Royal to be married on the evening of Wednesday, the 8th of April; and how he hiccuped out his vows of fidelity." "My brother," John, Duke of Bedford, records, "was one of the two unmarried dukes who supported the Prince at the ceremony, and he had need of his support; ...
— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall
... following morning (Monday, 8th May) I tried again to get information as to the state of affairs by forcing my way to the Town Hall from my house, which was cut off from the place of action. As in the course of my journey I was making my way ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner
... Historians of the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries who lived before Masudi, deemed the game worthy of notice and recommendation, Razi and Firdausi thought so too, and Hippocrates and Galen before them refer very favourably to its advantages, ...
— Chess History and Reminiscences • H. E. Bird
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