"Caul" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brazen urn Enshrined the bones, upgathered in a caul, And bearing round pure water, thrice in turn From olive branch the lustral dew lets fall, And, sprinkling, speaks the latest words of all. A lofty mound AEneas hastes to frame, Crowned with his oar and trumpet, 'neath a tall And ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... their younger sisters for doing what they perhaps have done—lifting a veil to be seen, and peeping at a world where innocence is as poor a guarantee as a babe's caul against shipwreck. Women of the world never think of attacking the sensual stipulation for perfect bloom, silver purity, which is redolent of the Oriental origin of the love-passion of their lords. Mrs. Mountstuart congratulated Sir Willoughby on the prize ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... As this humour still grew upon him he chose to wear a turban instead of a periwig; concluding very justly that a bandage of clean linen about his head was much more wholesome, as well as cleanly, than the caul of a wig, which is soiled with frequent ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... in my judgment the Italian dress, which answer I found pleased her well, for she delighted to shew her golden coloured hair, wearing a caul and bonnet as they do in Italy. Her hair was more reddish than yellow, curled ...
— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand
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