"Issue forth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... should take positions in the mountains, I opposed it as emphatically as I could, alleging incontrovertible arguments against it. It was then decided that all our forces, with the exception of a small watch, should issue forth from behind the mountains. ...
— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
... them; consequently they consort not, but mope in a vast palace with two mniserable tapers, and two or three monsignori, whom they are forced to court and humour, that they may not be entirely deserted. Sundays they do issue forth in a most unwieldy coach to ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole
... mellow like sealed wine with age; We thought them dead, and they are but asleep. In moments when the heart is most at rest And least expectant, from the luminous doors, And sacred dwelling place of things unfeared, They issue forth, and we who never knew Till then how potent and how real they were, Take them, and wonder, ...
— Among the Millet and Other Poems • Archibald Lampman
... precious things, discover'd late, To them who seek them issue forth; For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... enemies—reptiles of all sorts, and numerous birds—who eat such quantities, that out of many thousands but few pairs escape destruction. There are besides them in their fortress vast numbers of labourers, who only issue forth with caution to obtain provisions and materials for their abodes. When these discover a couple of the perfect termites who have escaped destruction, they elect them as their sovereigns, and escorting them to a hollow in the earth which ...
— In the Wilds of Africa • W.H.G. Kingston
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