"Cumin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "It is true. Of anise and of cumin the Master gets His tithe—" Maudelain broke off with a yapping laugh. "Puf! Heaven is wiser than we. I am King of ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... are Judges Quinlan, Casey, Brennan, and O'Dowd. The Rev. J. Milne Curran, F.G.S., is a geologist who has achieved more than local fame. Other Irishmen who have loomed large in Australasian affairs are Daniel Brophy, John Cumin, Augustus Leo Kenny, James Coghlan, Sir Patrick Buckley, Sir John O'Shannessy, and Nicholas Fitzgerald. Louis C. Brennan, C.B., who was born in Ireland in 1852, emigrated to Australia when a boy and while working in a civil engineer's office in Melbourne conceived the idea ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox
... more imperative sway to the authority of the Fathers, and to oral legends and precepts, than to the plain letter of Scripture; formalist, for they neglected the weightier spiritual matters of the law in a scrupulous tithing of mint, cumin, and anise seed, a pretentious wearing of broad phylacteries, an uttering of long prayers in the streets, and the various other hypocritical priestly paraphernalia of a ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... organisation and name. Other agricultural castes have been formed for the growing of special products. Thus the Malis are gardeners, and within the caste there exist such separate groups as the Phulmalis who grow flowers, the Jire Malis cumin and the Halde Malis turmeric. [85] Hindus generally object to cultivate san-hemp, [86] and some special castes have been formed from those who grew it and thus underwent some loss of status; such are the Lorhas and Kumrawats and Pathinas, and the Santora subcaste of Kurmis. The al [87] ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell
... all passed; and the old tithe went on Of anise, mint, and cumin, till the sun Set, leaving still ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier |
