"Yes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made the restitution. Two thousand, I believe, Paul paid into the convent where his sister Bridget has gone to become a nun. And the rest, I believe, he spent in raising an elegant monument over his parents and beloved Eugene's remains. O, yes, I forgot; he paid five hundred dollars towards the new Catholic church, S.A., ...
— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley
... reposed several shelves of "minutes" of criminal trials. They were dusty and depressing. Practically every one of them was a memento of some poor devil gone to prison or to the chair. Where were they now—and why did they kill—yes, why DID they? ...
— Courts and Criminals • Arthur Train
... always accompanies the service is as cheerful and genuine in the one case as in the other. Many women of the oldest and most aristocratic families of England have given, and are still giving, not only their money but their personal labor to this work; making sandwiches, boiling tea, yes, and washing the dishes, too, day after day and month after month. You do not often hear of them; they are too busy to advertise. But Tommy knows and I venture the assertion that no single sentence or "slogan" has been as often used among the soldiers in ...
— The Emma Gees • Herbert Wes McBride
... effort to clear our minds of these familiar conceptions which, it is plain are nothing but naive realism. Yes! the mechanical conception of the universe is ...
— The Mind and the Brain - Being the Authorised Translation of L'me et le Corps • Alfred Binet
... Yes. Let the devil take the hindmost; the three or four hindmost if you will; nay, all but those strong-running horses who can force themselves into noticeable places under the judge's eye. This is the noble shibboleth with ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
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