"Phoebe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feel the need of a special refresher," said Joan, "at least let me send Phoebe out for a bottle of some ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 • Various
... evening Phoebe Marks, maid to Lady Audley, invited her cousin and sweetheart, Luke Marks, a farm labourer with ambitions to own a public-house, to survey the wonders of Audley Court, including my lady's private apartments and her jewel-box. During the inspection, by accident, a knob ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.
... permit all the suits: he set a definite time and forbade investigation of what had occurred previous to that. In the case of his daughter he would show no mercy, urging that he would rather have been Phoebe's father than hers, but the rest he spared. Now Phoebe been a freedwoman of Julia's and the companion of her undertakings, and had already caused her own death. For this ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol. 4 • Cassius Dio
... anything else was lifted, and here was I, "Migwan, the Penpusher", actually about to start out on an automobile trip such as I had often heard described by more fortunate friends, but had never hoped to experience myself. We were all over at Hinpoha's house that night, because Aunt Phoebe had just come back with the Doctor and they ...
— The Campfire Girls Go Motoring • Hildegard G. Frey
... Meyrick, starting up, "it is after ten, and Phoebe is gone to bed." She hastened out, leaving the parlor ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
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