"Remove" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Yourself to save harmless think it sufficient, And weight not the people's clamorous outcries. Yet their mouths to stop I can soon devise: Say that the reading of the works of St Self-love And Doctor Ambition did your errors remove. And hark in thine[53] ear, delay no more time: The sooner the better in end you will say. [Aside.] We have now caught him as ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
... at Sparta, the work of Gitiades, who makes also the image and the hymn, in triple service to the goddess; and again, that curious story of Dipoenus and Scyllis, brought back with so much awe to remove the public curse by completing their sacred task upon the images, show how simply religious the age still was—that this widespread artistic activity was a religious enthusiasm also; those early sculptors have still, for their contemporaries, a divine mission, with some kind of hieratic ...
— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater
... which only masculine creatures ever really know, a relationship which is intimate without ever making inroads on privacy; full of pleasure in companionship without any feeling of a blank when apart; where love cannot be said to exist, and yet of which, if the irrevocableness of death remove one of the two, there remains to the other a void that is felt recurrently for the rest of his life whenever anything arises which that other person alone could have felt and appreciated in quite the ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... of in any way bringing Mary's name into evidence. Up to the present, no one thought of connecting her with the matter in any definite way, and Paul was determined that, whatever took place, this must be avoided. Neither could he remove the difficulty of the knife without connecting it with his mother. As we have said, she was in his office on the morning of the day of his quarrel with Wilson, and was, as far as he could see, the only one who could have obtained possession ...
— The Day of Judgment • Joseph Hocking
... roll and get rid of that ice you've been making. You're racing dogs, not ice plants." They pawed the ice from their eyes, and thawed it out from between their toes with their warm tongues. And "Scotty," too, was obliged to remove the ice from his lashes before he could be ...
— Baldy of Nome • Esther Birdsall Darling
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