"Charr" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... these, I also, in such station As when the pyre was charr'd, and piled the sods. And offering to the dead made, and their gods, The old mourners had, standing to make libation, I stand, and to the Gods and to the dead Do reverence without prayer or praise, and shed Offering to these unknown, the gods ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... Troy, Babylon, Mycenae, and Cleone, the following being the conversation; "I want to point out to you," says Mercury, "the tomb of Achilles: you see it on the sea? That's Cape Sigaeum in the Troad: and on the Rhoetaean promontory opposite Ajax is buried. CHAR. Those tombs, O Hermes, are no great sights. Rather point out to me those renowned cities, of which I have heard below,—Nineveh, the capital of Sardanapalus, Babylon, Mycenae, Cleone and that famous Troy, on account of which I remember ferrying across there ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross
... a Communist, Char," Nick said, sniffing the good sulphurous air. "How come you're on the job as bridgekeeper if ...
— Satan and the Comrades • Ralph Bennitt
... ponds with a good stream, or in lakes, char may be tried with a prospect of success. They require cold waters, and I have never heard of their being successfully introduced in the South of England. They are a more difficult ...
— Amateur Fish Culture • Charles Edward Walker
... drug, which Tommy has to have at certain periods of the day. Battles have been known to have been stopped to enable Tommy to get his tea, or "char" as it ...
— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey
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