"End of the world" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... coming down, and the whole way up the C.T. we were sniped and shelled, the shells bursting all round us within a few yards, but, thank goodness, none going into the trench. The men coming down seemed to think the end of the world had come were almost on their hands and knees. We tried to encourage them a bit, but they did not like to stand up, though they were not likely to be hit unless a shell came into the trench. At length ...
— Letters from France • Isaac Alexander Mack
... an Arab, who was bathing in a pool, where he had come from, and he sulkily answered, "From t'other end of the world!" And I suppose he was right in saying so, for what meaning could he attach to the designation, the world. He must have meant the world of his own experience, or that of his tribe, or his parents—probably extending to the end of the Dead Sea in one direction, to the Lake ...
— Byeways in Palestine • James Finn
... of Nelson and Wellington men came to the club. I was amused at dinner by a certain sailor and others, who maintained that the end of the world was likely to arrive shortly; the principal argument appearing to be, that there was no more sheep country to be found in Canterbury. This fact is, I fear, only too true. With this single exception, ...
— A First Year in Canterbury Settlement • Samuel Butler
... sought me out a Mohar who knows his power and leads the jeunesse, a chief in the armee, [who travels] even to the end of the world. ...
— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce
... to put a whole landscape or a complex personality into a few lines is the direct outcome of his study of Old Norse literature. Icelandic poetry is characterized by this quality. One has but to compare the account of the end of the world as it is found in the last strophes of Voeluspa, or in the Prose Edda, with the similar account in Revelations to see how much two languages may differ in this respect. It would seem as if the ...
— The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature • Conrad Hjalmar Nordby
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