"Sunday" Quotes from Famous Books
... and in all others.—The head of the family takes the trouble to collect all the sums subscribed upon his family list, and to pay them into the hands of those who (on the part of the institution) are sent round on the first Sunday morning of every month to receive them; but the names of all the individuals who compose the family are entered on the list at full length, with ... — ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical. Volume 1. • Benjamin Rumford
... like the tide Down to the Bay o' Fundy, An' all I know is they wuz cried In meetin', come nex Sunday. ... — The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... it in your hands last Sunday, and my eyes were drawn to it till its whole figure seemed to stamp itself on my mind. See! I can trace it from memory." And, taking his cane, he traced the curiously involved figure on ... — Cord and Creese • James de Mille
... thing like a barne set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth; so also was the walls; the best of our houses were of like curiosity.... Yet we had daily Common Prayer morning and evening; every Sunday two sermons; and every three months a holy Communion till our Minister died: but our Prayers daily with an Homily on Sundays wee continued two or three years after, till more ... — Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... Easter Sunday, the French and Spanish met in the terrible battle of Ravenna,—one of the most cruel and bloody engagements in all history. The field remained to the French,—sixteen thousand out of an army of twenty thousand Spanish being slain or ... — With Spurs of Gold - Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds • Frances Nimmo Greene
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