"Lamblike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... far as to bow in the direction she had taken; then with lamblike eyes of inquiry met the exasperated glances cast ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... what is rare, attend! Here lies an honest man, Of perfect piety, Of lamblike patience, My friend, James Barker; To whom I pay this mean memorial, For what deserves the greatest. An example Which shone through all the clouds of fortune, Industrious in low estate, The lesson and reproach of those above him. To lay this little stone Is my ambition; While others rear ...
— The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 • Edward Young
... always of the lamblike demeanour which he displayed in the turret. On March 5, 1601, Nicholson reports that 'Sir Hugh Herries,' the lame doctor, 'and Henderson fell out and were at offering of strokes,' whence 'revelations' were anticipated. They never ...
— James VI and the Gowrie Mystery • Andrew Lang
... let not that vex your mind, 'Tis only at midnight it mocks control; By day I am timid as any hind. How tame I have grown, you yourself must say, When you think on the women in lands far away— Of that fair Princess—ah, she was wild! Beside her lamblike am I and mild. She did not helplessly yearn and brood, She ...
— The Feast at Solhoug • Henrik Ibsen
... Kate, spluttering still. Pixie had flipped over a page with a deft movement, and sat with hands folded on her lap, a picture of lamblike innocence. ...
— Pixie O'Shaughnessy • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... signing of the famous Concordat of Fontainebleau, the Pope dined in public with me; but in the night he was ill, or pretended to be. He was a lamblike, honest, and truly good man, whom I highly esteemed and loved, and who had some regard for me I am sure. Would you believe it, he wrote me a week after signing the Concordat that he much regretted having done so, that his conscience ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... glad she doesn't. I want her to forget. She's very happy with us—but she's far from perfect." "To what form of cussedness does she tend, Lyn? With me she's as lamblike ...
— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock
... They knew that Jack Walthall wasn't at all lamblike in his disposition. He was tall and strong and handsome, with pale classic features, jet-black curling hair, and beautiful white hands that never knew what labor was. He was something of a dandy in Hillsborough, but in a large, manly, generous way. With his perfect manners, stately ...
— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris
... with his 'battling with the world' and all the rest of his really highly moral conventional views!" exclaimed Killigrew. "He's a fraud, isn't he, Ishmael, who pretends to love to wallow in blug just to hide his lamblike disposition." ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse |
