"Concrete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may not have adverted to it; but this character is the ground of our present abbreviations y'e the, y't that, y's this, &c. the y in these cases being evidently only an altered and more modern way of writing . [5] vyaund. This word is to be understood in the concrete, quasi vyander, a curious epicure, an Apicius. V. Preface. [6] csten ynges. Christian kings. K being to be inserted afterwards (v. note [1] and [3]) in red ink. Chaucer, v. christen. [7] and. ...
— The Forme of Cury • Samuel Pegge
... dependence. She cried a great deal, and she read the Bible, and prayed. Sometimes she was exhausted and apathetic. Then she did indeed look forward to her ordeal, for it seemed to offer an escape, direct and concrete, from the anguish she was enduring. She could not bear much longer the vague terrors which now assailed her. With her sins she had put aside all personal vanity, and she slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, in her tawdry dressing-gown. She had ...
— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham
... her did not make allowances for the very rapid rotting action of the Ogowe water, so her hull rusted through before her engines were a quarter worn out; and there was nothing to be done with her then, but put a lot of concrete in, and make her a depot, in which state of life she is very useful, for during the height of the dry season, the Move cannot get through the creek to supply the firm's Fernan ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... At this, he looked away from the specimen; looked around puzzled, quizzically, and, in sympathetic impulse, began laughing himself. Thus a wholly unmodern incident took a whimsical turn out of a horror which, if farcical in the abstract, was no less potent in the concrete. ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... Janet, she had no way of indicating the corrections but by again writing the whole poem out in a neat print hand on the edge of the proof, and underscoring the words which were to be altered. This, when you think of it, is a very good way, when the happiest part of your life is to be spent in such concrete pleasures of hope, as Janet's were over the crackly sheets of the printer of Drum. Finally the book was produced, a small rather thickish octavo, on sufficiently wretched gray paper which had suffered from want ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
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