"Assai" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Assai palm which I took for my landmark. The secret opening is half a mile onwards upon the other side of the river. There is no break in the trees. That is the wonder and the mystery of it. There where you see light-green rushes instead of dark-green undergrowth, there between ...
— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle
... "there is no one else you can, by any possible caprice, prefer to Mr. Leslie; and for a girl who has no one else in her head to talk of detesting a well-looking, well-dressed, clever young man, is—a nonsense—'Chi lascia il poco per haver l'assai ne l'uno, ne l'altro avera mai'—which may be thus paraphrased,—The young lady who refuses a mortal in the hope of obtaining an angel, loses the one, and will never fall in with the other. So now, having thus shown that the ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
