"In time" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Fazio received for the 'Historia Alfonsi,' besides a yearly income of 500 ducats, a present of 1,500 more when it was finished, with the words, 'It is not given to pay you, for your work would not be paid for if I gave you the fairest of my cities; but in time I ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt
... season, the ranchmen and the boys separated from the sheriffs and, urging their ponies, arrived at the home in time for dinner. ...
— Comrades of the Saddle - The Young Rough Riders of the Plains • Frank V. Webster
... rhymes on the fleeting events of his own day. A collection of his Jests was published in 1611; the following is a favourable specimen:—"There was a nobleman asked Tarleton what he thought of soldiers in time of peace. Marry, quoth he, they are ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... clouds, how many ages must have elapsed before the beds of rivers were circumscribed as we now see them in England. The water always followed the lowest level, but, being of different quantities at different seasons, vegetation would flourish on the sides occasionally covered, and in time would generate banks; while the stream itself, by carrying off the argillaceous bottom, would add to the depth—the two combined causes producing all the phenomena of bounded rivers.[2] The Thames, after heavy rains, or thaws of ...
— A Morning's Walk from London to Kew • Richard Phillips
... was just in time. A savage warrior dropped down the great wide chimney that all the log cabins had, and fell lightly on his feet among the dead embers of a month ago. His face was distorted horribly with ferocity, and ...
— The Forest Runners - A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler
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