"Marking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... strength and vigour almost unimpaired. Few can forget his hale and hearty presence, as he strode along the streets of Birmingham; his peculiar walk—the strange jerky spring of the hinder foot, and the heavy planting of the front, as if he were striking the earth with a powerful blow—marking his individuality, whilst the pleasant kindly smile of greeting, and the full firm tones of his manly voice, gave evidence of vigour very rare in a man of his age. Even to the last his strength seemed unimpaired, ...
— Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men • E. Edwards
... symmetrical movement of the machine. The call boy is quite an important personage, because, upon him depends the prompt calling of the various crews in time to take out their trains. He must keep a keen watch on the call board for the marking up of trains; he must know who is the first to go out, and he must know the dwelling place of every engineer, fireman, conductor and brakeman in the city. On a big division like ours, this, in itself, was not a small job. On some ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... article entitled "The Lost Haggis." We always have our initials put on a haggis with marking ink before despatching it to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 12, 1920 • Various
... guide the mad assassin's aims. I knew the schemes that you had planned, the one that nothing curbs, I envied your diplomacy that blamed it on the Serbs. My brain ne'er hatched a finer scheme, your armies marking time And then the rape of Belgium, ...
— Rhymes of a Roughneck • Pat O'Cotter
... Fortune and her frowns Brought either chief to Macedonian shores Still equal to his foe. From cooler skies Sank Atlas' (1) daughters down, and Haemus' slopes Were white with winter, and the day drew nigh Devoted to the god who leads the months, And marking with new names the book of Rome, When came the Fathers from their distant posts By both the Consuls to Epirus called (2) Ere yet the year was dead: a foreign land Obscure received the magistrates of Rome, And ...
— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan
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