"Hone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are frozen as the clouds, You are far and sweet as the high clouds. I dare reach to you, I dare touch the rim of your brightness. I leap beyond the winds, I cry and shout, For my throat is keen as a sword Sharpened on a hone of ivory. My throat sings the joy of my eyes, The rushing ...
— American Poetry, 1922 - A Miscellany • Edna St. Vincent Millay
... say it; she was a bonnie woman whatever, and grand at the spinning and the butter. And, oich-hone, it was a sad day ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor
... Good heavens! — one of the vikings had just started, and was making short work of his mountain. And one after another they all walked into them, until the whole eight had disappeared. I should have nothing to say about hunger, misery, and cold, when I came hone. My head was going round; the temperature must have been as many degrees above zero in here as it was below zero outside. I looked up at Wisting's bunk, where a thermometer was hanging: 95deg. F. The vikings did not seem to take the slightest notice of this trifle; their work with the ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
... considerable of a lawyer myself—that is, for one not college larnt; and I'll tell you how it is"—and thereupon Uncle Jaw launched forth into the case of the medder land and the mill, and concluded with, "Now, Joseph, this 'ere is a kinder whetstone for you to hone up your wits on." ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... reserving only sufficient strength for the protection of their families. The inhabitants of Hobart Town, in public meeting assembled, tendered their service to the government, for the furtherance of the object. The peace-loving Joseph Hone, Esq., was chairman of this warlike meeting: most of the leading speakers belonged to the profession of the gown. Mr. Kemp, one of the elder colonists, once an officer of the 102nd regiment, who had seen the ...
— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West
... route at Lynn. J.W. Blodgett keeps twenty-five cows, and takes his milk to market. Geo. N. Miller and T.O.W. Houghton also keep cows and have a route. Joshua Kingsbury, George H. Pearson and George Ames have a route, buying their milk. Byron Hone keeps fifty cows. Dudley Fiske has twenty-five, selling their milk. O.M. Hitchings, H. Burns, A.B. Davis, Lewis Austin, Richard Hawkes and others keep from seven to ...
— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 3, December, 1884 • Various
... last year of his life, when almost on the verge of want, $16,500 was sent to him as a present from friends in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, more than one-half being raised by Mayor Hone of New York. Jefferson was moved to tears, and in expressing his gratitude said, he was thankful that not a penny had been ...
— Thomas Jefferson • Edward S. Ellis et. al.
... it to-night when I'm asleep.—And so young, and so beautiful, too. Och hone!" murmured the old woman, as she unlocked the door, and with ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
... with a laugh; "Hone suit qui mal y peens. My young friend, yonder, is as well protected as any young lady in Christendom. She has her mamma on one side, her pretend on the other. Could any harm happen to ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... material for structural as well as ornamental purposes (saving 100,000 bricks provided by the City)(1531) came from abroad, and to this day the Royal Exchange is paved with small blocks of Turkish hone-stones believed to have been imported in Gresham's day, and to have been relaid after the several fires of 1666 and 1838. It was the employment of these strangers which probably gave rise to an order of the Court of Aldermen (19 June, ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe
... for the angler's sylvan feast. In proud cities you will weary for the sight of a mountain trail; in great cathedrals you will think of the long, arching aisles of the woodland; and in the noisy solitude of crowded streets you will hone after ...
— The Blue Flower, and Others • Henry van Dyke
... is sung by the Mayers at Hitchin in the county of Herts. For an account of the manner in which May-day is observed at Hitchin, see Hone's ...
— Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England • Robert Bell
... this article was written, many of these ancient Mysteries and Moralities have been printed at home and abroad. Hone, in his "Ancient Mysteries Described," 1825, first gave a summary of the Ludus Coventriae, the famous mysteries performed by the trading companies of Coventry; the entire series have been since printed by the Shakspeare Society, under the ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... help it? It is hard to realize that a metal can be so hard that it requires forty years on a diamond-dust abrasive machine to hone a razor—or that once honed, it shaves generation after generation of men without losing ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
... Duerer's works than a stranger might be led to expect.[215-*] The print-room of our British Museum, with its great number of engravings and drawings, and its wonderful sculpture in hone-stone by him, is a far better place to study the works of this artist. There is, however, one work of singular interest preserved in the old city, which is worth a long journey to see. It is the portrait of the old Nuernberg patrician—Jerome Holzschuher, the friend ...
— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt
... to arsk all the hole Court of common Counselmen, what on airth he was to do with 'em, and they told him to hinsult the Libery Committee on the matter, and they, like the lerned gents as they is, told him to take down sum of the werry biggest and the most strikingest as they'd got of their hone Picters and ang 'em up in the Gildhall Westybool, as they calls it, coz it's in the East, I spose, and so make room for a lot of the littel uns as had been sent to 'em, coz they was painted by "Old Marsters," tho' ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 30, 1892 • Various
... House on Munday, given, as I was told, to all the Horthers and Hartists of Urope, who had jest bin a holding of a Meeting to let ewerybody kno as how as they ment for to have their rites in their hone ritings and picters, or they woodn't rite no more, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, October 18, 1890 • Various
... shovel and tongs To each other belongs, And the kettle sings songs Full of family glee, While alone with your cup, Like a hermit you sup, Och hone, ...
— Penelope's Irish Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin |
