"As it is" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up to the rocks on one side of the cove, where he could land from her; but as it is eleven o'clock, the hour appointed for the regatta, we must return to ...
— The Yacht Club - or The Young Boat-Builder • Oliver Optic
... is a neat and spacious building, of the same kind of architecture as that of St. Jacques, at Dieppe; and, as it is a good specimen of the florid Norman Gothic, (I forbid all cavils respecting the employment of this term) I have added a figure of it. My slender researches have not enabled me to discover the date of the building, but it may, have been ...
— Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2) • Dawson Turner
... dynasty can be established with certainty, with the exception of the order of the three last sovereigns who succeed Khuniatonu. It is here given in its authentic form, as the monuments have permitted us to reconstruct it, and in its Greek form as it is found in the lists ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... layman?' 'Of course,' was the immediate reply. [Footnote: Of course, Mr. Palmer, who was clear-headed, knew what he was saying, and meant that, in comparing an irreligious priest with a religious layman, the priest, as such, belongs to a higher spiritual order than the layman as such, just as it is a mere truism to say that a fallen angel, as regards his degree in the order of creation, is superior to ...
— Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 • Robert Ornsby
... "I can recall those days. Not a single house on the north side of the lake: no one but Indians and a few trappers who made their way up here in summer by canoe and in winter with dog-sleds, much as it is now ...
— Maria Chapdelaine - A Tale of the Lake St. John Country • Louis Hemon
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