"Selfsame" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... where matters of importance undoubtedly await him. He had noted, in his previous passage to and fro, that the young man who had been nearest to the tragedy was in his place before the case of coins in Section I. This time he noted something more. The young man was in the selfsame spot, but during this brief interval of waiting, the passion he evidently cherished for numismatics had reasserted itself, and he now stood with his eyes bent as eagerly upon the display of coins over which he hung, as if no shaft of death had ...
— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green
... the members of the United. Those who are inclined to censure its professional aspect would do well to remember the much-vaunted beginnings of amateur journalism, when the most highly respected sheets were of this selfsame variety. ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... keeps up, by straight or bend, The selfsame pace she hath begun - Still hurry, hurry, to the end - Good God, is that ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... with dangers of death, for a gloss on Ps. 127:1, "Blessed are all they that fear the Lord," says that "it is human fear whereby we dread to suffer carnal dangers, or to lose worldly goods." Again a gloss on Matt. 27:44, "He prayed the third time, saying the selfsame word," says that "evil fear is threefold, fear of death, fear of pain, and fear of contempt." Therefore the sin of fear is not ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... warrant me to show in the same space of time the selfsame prowess with one virgin that Herailes of Greece did with fifty. And the maid shall be none other but the Princess Helen, King ...
— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France
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