"Un" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exerts a more degrading influence upon husbands that upon wives. The love of the latter finds expression in flowers and children, while the former seem to be rendered incapable of pure love of anything. The spirit of Mormonism is intensely exclusive and un-American. A more withdrawn, compact, sealed-up body of people could hardly be found on the face of the earth than is gathered here, notwithstanding railroads, telegraphs, and the penetrating lights that go sifting through society everywhere ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir
... do wi' you?" answered one of the treasure-seekers. "Why don't yer mind yer own bleed'n' business? What's the use o' lettin' good stuff go west? A dead un can't do nothin' wi' watches an' rings an' five-franc notes! Gorblimy, 'ave a bit o' sense! It's allus your class o' blokes what makes a ...
— Combed Out • Fritz August Voigt
... du Siecle de Louis XIV., Voltaire ajoute un fait qu'il se contente d'enoncer simplement, comme une chose hors de doute; c'est que Gil Blas est pris entierement d'un livre ecrit en Espagnol, et dont il cite ainsi le titre—La vidad de lo Escudero Dom Marco d'Obrego—sans indiquer ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... probably worth about thirty-five. Rand was intrigued by this second instance of an un-Rivers-like willingness to spare no expense to get possession of a ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... are most nearly allied in tone and spirit to the 'Confessions' are the 'Reveries d'un Promeneur Solitaire' and 'La Nouvelle Heloise'. His correspondence throws much light on his life and character, as do also parts of 'Emile'. It is not easy in our day to realize the effect wrought upon the public mind by the advent of 'La Nouvelle Heloise'. Julie and Saint-Preux became ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
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