"Ms" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... historical account of his family and tribe, written in the sixteenth century by a member of the junior branch of the ruling house of the Cakchiquels. His name was Don Francisco Ernantez Arana Xahila, and a passage of the MS. informs us that he was writing in 1581. After his death the work was continued by Don Francisco Tiaz Gebuta Queh. The style is familiar and often vivid, and the work is addressed to his children. It begins with the earliest ...
— Aboriginal American Authors • Daniel G. Brinton
... had done well at Oxford, and also that he had once, at all events, had considerable ambitions; but his health was not strong, he was extremely sensitive, and very fastidious about the quality of his work. I realised this on an occasion when he once entrusted me with a MS., and asked me if I would give him an opinion, as it was an experiment, and he did not feel sure of his ground; he added that there was no hurry about it. I put the MS. away in a despatch-box, and having at the time a press of work, I forgot about it. He never asked me for it, and I did not ...
— The Altar Fire • Arthur Christopher Benson
... a passage in a MS. translation of an Irish Fairy tale, called The Adventures of Faravla, Princess of Scotland, and Carral O'Daly, Son of Donogho More ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... is obtained from a printed book in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid, collated with the MS. copy in the ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 27 of 55) • Various
... "Stilicho," which Mr. Casti had been so good as to submit to them, and regretted their inability to make any proposal for its publication, seeing that its subject was hardly likely to excite popular interest. They thanked the author for offering it to them, and begged to return the MS. ...
— The Unclassed • George Gissing
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