"Decided" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the temptation aside. Better not to risk meeting other passengers, Tommy especially, if he decided he ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... things that cannot be stirred, as rivers, highways, hills, and the like. Now, such unremoveable marks, meres, and boundaries we have between the estate of my excellent client, Master Roger Nowell, and that of Mistress Nutter, so that the matter at issue will be easily decided." ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... house, Maurice ran all over it in fearless ecstasies. Cecile sat on the edge of a chair, and Toby, after sniffing at the cat, decided to make friends with her by lying down in the delicious warmth ...
— The Children's Pilgrimage • L. T. Meade
... taken in payment of a debt, but it was from necessity rather than choice, for at this very time Washington had decided that "it is demonstratively clear, that on this Estate (Mount Vernon) I have more working negros by a full moiety, than can be employed to any advantage in the farming system, and I shall never turn Planter thereon. To sell the overplus I cannot, because I am principled against ...
— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford
... not to be doubted for an instant, that the wisest among the Pagans adored nature; which ethnic theology designated under a great variety of nomenclature, under an immense number of different emblems. Apuleius, although a decided Platonist, accustomed to the mysterious, unintelligible notions of his master, calls "Nature the parent of all; the mother of the elements, the first offspring of the world;" again, "the mother of the stars, the parent of the seasons, and the ...
— The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach
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