"Weal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sybarite, you know, of the worst kind—sure to find something here, and we can square it with him afterwards. Beauty in distress, you know, appeals to all hearts. Here we are!" holding out at arm's length a pasty. "A 'weal and ammer!' Take it! The guilt be on my head! Bread—butter—pickled onions! Oh, not pickled onions, I think. Really, I had no idea even Everett had fallen so low. Cheese!—about to proceed on a walking tour! The young lady wouldn't ...
— A Little Rebel - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... shady grove and silvery stream! Now that yclosed is the Fane, where I Am doomed, by no unhappy destiny, To tend those Mighty Ones who find a theme For their lives' labour in the nation's weal. Now am I free, or book or rod in hand, Alone, or compassed by a cherub band Of laughing children, by the brook to steal, Seeking repose in sport which WALTON loved— Sport meet alike for Youth or thoughtful Age— Free, an I wish to go a pilgrimage ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 14. Saturday, February 2, 1850 • Various
... non' other weal the quest have wrought me. The long beloved labour now at end, This gift of gifts the untravelled East hath brought me, The knowledge of a new and ...
— Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp • John Payne
... We make the nation's weal or woe, As one may shape his future life. "God's mill," 'tis said, "grinds fine, tho' slow," A fact lost sight of in the strife For place and power in Church and State, And think God cares not what we ...
— Gleams of Sunshine - Optimistic Poems • Joseph Horatio Chant
... meditation of love, in which you so adjust your heart that you long for the weal and welfare of all beings, including the happiness ...
— The Way of Peace • James Allen
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