"Peter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the house of Savoy in 1033, and Count Peter, whom they nicknamed Little Charlemagne for his prowess and his conquests, built the present castle, after which the barons of the Pays de Vaud and the Duke of Cophingen (whoever he may have been) besieged Peter in it. Perhaps they might have taken him. But the wine was so good, and the ...
— A Little Swiss Sojourn • W. D. Howells
... world-old Fair of Vanity Since Bunyan's day has grown discreeter No more it flocks in crowds to see A blazing Paul or Peter. ...
— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith
... also we will agree with the Commission—that we ought not to rob Peter to pay Paul, and take water to a distance which other people close at hand may want. Look at the map of England and southern Scotland; and see for yourself what is just, according to geography and nature. There are four mountain-ranges; four ...
— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley
... genuine peter dust!" he exclaimed exultantly. "Why, we can make powder here as long as ...
— The Young Trailers - A Story of Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler
... south, to the South," cried Peter Martyr, "for the riches of the Aequinoctiall they that seek riches must go, not into the cold and frozen north." It was a judgment justified in the event. Francisco Pizarro, having verified the report of rich ...
— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker
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