"A few" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of space, a whining sound arises, swells, rends the air above the shed, and the shell bursts a few yards off, with the sound ...
— The New Book Of Martyrs • Georges Duhamel
... second Punic War, during which, as we gather from prefaces and allusions, a number of the extant plays were produced. Soon after the final collapse of the Carthaginian power at Zama, a child was born at Carthage, who, a few years later, in the course of unexplained vicissitudes, reached Rome as a boy-slave, and passed there into the possession of a rich and educated senator, Terentius Lucanus. The boy showed some unusual turn for books; he ...
— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail
... A few months later, Easter of 1937, I conducted on the smooth lawns at Encinitas the first of many Sunrise Services. Like the magi of old, several hundred students gazed in devotional awe at the daily miracle, the early solar fire rite in the eastern sky. To the west lay ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... years later, Captain Pynnar was sent to survey the lands that had been granted to the undertakers, and to report upon the improvements they had effected. A few notices from his report will give an idea of the state of Ulster at the commencement ...
— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin
... touched the trigger with his finger, from beyond the dunes, about a few hundred paces distant, could be heard tumultuous cheers, and in the same minute about twenty riders on horses and camels debouched on the plain. Idris became petrified at the sight. Stas was amazed no less, but at once amazement gave way to insane joy. The expected pursuit at last! Yes! ...
— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz
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