"Counsel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... isle beyond the sea, and, gifted with the Celtic wit, was also in logic clear as the tones of a bell, while his insight into human motives was almost superhuman. Lovell had had occasion in other years to rely on Sutton's counsel, and now would listen to no refusal of his services. As it turned out, the lawyer's mission in Ogalalla was so closely in sympathy with Lovell's trouble that they naturally strengthened each other. The highest tribunal of justice in Ogalalla was the county ...
— The Outlet • Andy Adams
... world. She would have earned it and used it well. She could have helped him, inspired him. They would have worked together: he the force and she the guidance. She would have supplied the things he lacked. It was to her he came for counsel, as it was. But for her he would never have taken the first step. What right had this poor brainless lump of painted flesh to share his wounds, his triumphs? What help could she give him when the time should come ...
— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome
... wariest statesman have better parried that question? Not on one single occasion during the long series of questions that Joan of Arc was made to undergo, without any counsel or help, and with some of the subtlest brains in the country eager to involve her in damaging statements and to entangle her in saying something which might be taken up as injurious to Charles—that mean prince, who ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower
... said he, when the last of them had come, "I have sore need of your wisdom and counsel. Hark to the mournful ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... Giant said, "Then carry him I will, Since that to carry me he was so slack— To render, as the gods do, good for ill; But lend a hand to place him on my back." Orlando answered, "If my counsel still May weigh, Morgante, do not undertake To lift or carry this dead courser, who, As you have done to him, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
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