"Unstrained" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to prove the justice of the unstrained censure! I could not account for the malignant personality of this critique, until Barry informed me that my publishers never advertised their books in the columns of the "Frogpond Gazette." This, of course, explained it. I only wish I had the stubborn editor of the "Frogpond" ...
— Daisy's Necklace - And What Came of It • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... mouthful. But, though of drouth full, I trust I'll never Another swallow. I've tried the tide Of Thames, Medway, Clyde, But unstrained Lea-water, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893 • Various
... the hands of the house-wife comes the crock by its fatal flaw: An hundred earls shall slay me, or the fleeing night-thief's shaft, The sickness that wasteth cities, or the unstrained summer draught: Now as mighty shall be King Atli and the gathered Eastland force As the fly in the wine desired, ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... my fall, so fair a fare Lessens not hate, yet 'tis a lesson good: Gilt will not long hide guilt; such thin wash'd ware Wears quickly, and its rude touch soon is rued. Grave on my grave some sentence grave and terse, That lies not as it lies upon my clay, But, in a gentle strain of unstrained verse, Prays all to pity a poor patty's prey— Rehearses I was fruitful to my hearse, Tell that my days are told, and soon ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 274, Saturday, September 22, 1827 • Various |
