"Simon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... people busied themselves at Harrodsburg, Boonesborough and Logan's Fort, Simon Kenton, disappointed in a love affair in Virginia, seeking relief from sorrow by satisfying his hunger for hunting and at the same time acting in the interest of Lord Dunmore, came to Kentucky. He reached a point near Old Washington in Mason County, where he and his ...
— The story of Kentucky • Rice S. Eubank
... she's Mrs. Harry Underwood—that's Harry with her—but she's better known all over the country as the cleverest producer of illustrated jingles for advertising we have. Remember that Simple Simon parody for the mincemeat advertisement we laughed over some time ago, and I told you I knew the woman who did it? There she is before you," and Dicky ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... much in earnest, not so possessed by his matter that this is allowed to him, how is it to be hoped that we shall be possessed in the reading of it? More than once in Catriona we must own we had this experience, directly warring against full possession by the story, and certain passages about Simon Lovat were especially marked by this; if even the first introduction to Catriona herself was not so. As for Miss Barbara Grant, of whom so much has been made by many admirers, she is decidedly clever, indeed too clever by half, and yet her doom is to be a mere deus ex machina, and never ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp
... anglais. Nous ne voulons pas ici recriminer, autrement il serait permis de demander ou Palsgrave prend le droit de se montrer si rigoureux, et quels typographes illustres l'Angleterre du XVIe siecle peut mettre en concurrence de nos Verard, Estienne, Simon de Colines, Francois et Sebastien Gryphe, Vascosan, et tant d'autres. Le moins inconnu qu'il fut possible de leur opposer est justement ce Pynson, qui a imprime la premiere partie du livre de Palsgrave avec quatre fautes des ...
— An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly • Anonymous
... not any wonders, except two fair palaces that belonged unto the bishop, and also a mighty large castle that was built with brick, with three walls, and three great trenches, so strong that it was impossible for any prince's power to win it; then he saw a church wherein was buried Simon and the bishop of Popo. Their tombs are of most sumptuous stone-marble, closed and joined together with great bars of iron. From thence he departed to Paris, where he liked well the academy; and what place or kingdom soever fell in his ...
— Mediaeval Tales • Various
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