"Word" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that word M. de Saintonge, comprehending the RUSE by which he had been overcome, cut him short; crying out in a rage that he would see him in perdition first. However, we all immediately took the Marquis in hand, and made it our business to reconcile him to the notion; the King even making a special ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... for grands coups entre gentilshommes; but that the feeling of hatred treasured up in the mind, instead of being diffused abroad, was still hatred all the same; that a smile was sometimes as full of meaning as a threat; and, in a word, that to the fathers who had hated with their hearts and fought with their arms, would now succeed the sons, who would indeed hate with their hearts, but would no longer combat their enemies save by means of intrigue or treachery. As, therefore, ...
— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... quite still," she said crossly, and my heart reproached me as I thought of Viola and the hours she had stood for me without a word of complaint in ...
— Five Nights • Victoria Cross
... really very sorry for what I said; I forgot. I assure you I didn't mean to sneer. I give you my word of honour." ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore
... confound these two terms, sometimes calling the western chain by one name, and sometimes by the other. Nevertheless, a strict distinction ought to be observed:—the western chain should properly be called the Cordillera, and the eastern chain the Andes. The latter name is derived from the Quichua word Antasuyu; Anta signifying metal generally, but especially copper, and Suyu a district; the meaning of Antasuyu, therefore, is the metal district. In common parlance, the word Suyu was dropped, and the termination ...
— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi
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