"Countercheck" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "a man like could not think otherwise without a revolution of his whole being to which the change of the leopard's spots would he nothing.—What you meant, after all, was not cordiality; it was only generosity; to which his response, his countercheck friendly, was an order for ten pounds!—All ...
— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald
... utmost degree of demonstration, have, to their surprise, been rejected. Whatever there is most awful in religion, most sacred in an oath, or most tremendous in the censures of the church, is employed in the process of canonization to elicit truth and detect falsehood. Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect. The persons employed in it are the members of the Roman Catholic church, the most exalted by ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... let her there provide her mourning weeds And mourn for ever her own widow-hood. Ne'er shall she come within our palace gate, To countercheck brave Locrine in his love. Go, boy, to Devrolitum, down the Lee, Unto the arch where lovely Estrild lies. Bring her and Sabren straight unto the court; She shall be queen in Gwendoline's room. Let others wail for Corineius' ...
— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]
... his ear for the first time from a white man's lips, and the stupefaction of it was a countercheck to his grief. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... unfit to bless With comfortable earthliness The rest-desiring brain of man. Finally, them, I fix my plan To dwell with Him that dwells apart In the highest heaven and lowliest heart; Nor will I, to my utter loss, Look to pluck roses from the Cross. As for the good of human love, 'Twere countercheck almost enough To think that one must die before The other; and perhaps 'tis more In love's last interest to do Nought the least contrary thereto, Than to be blest, and be unjust, Or suffer injustice; as they must, Without a miracle, whose pact Compels to mutual life and act, Whether love ...
— The Victories of Love - and Other Poems • Coventry Patmore |
