"Selected" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up, and you discover What it is to be a lover. Some young lady is selected - Poor, perhaps, but well-connected, Whom you hail (for Love is blind As the Queen of Fairy-kind. Though she's plain - perhaps unsightly, Makes her face up - laces tightly, In her form your fancy traces All the gifts of all the graces. Rivals none the maiden woo, So you take her and she takes ...
— Songs of a Savoyard • W. S. Gilbert
... She had not really selected her husband. She did not know: she had permitted herself to be married by her father, who, then a widower, embarrassed by the care of a girl, had wished to do things quickly and well. He considered the exterior advantages, estimated the eighty years of imperial nobility ...
— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France
... existence, but if, as you unkindly say, I am only a fiction, why should I have been selected as a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... stopped at a florist's. It was a habit he had acquired under similar circumstances. He was puzzled to know just what to send in a land where the highways and hedges run riot with flowers, but he finally selected some wonderful orchids of delicate lavender and mauve. Purposely, he put no card with them, feeling that ...
— Stanford Stories - Tales of a Young University • Charles K. Field
... On the contrary, it is frankly admitted that quite a number of grave blunders were made; but they were not confined to any one party. Neither Republicans nor Democrats can justly lay claim to all that was good or truthfully charge the other with all that was bad. Of those who were selected as representatives of the two parties, the Democrats had, in point of experience and intelligence, a slight advantage over the Republicans; but in point of honesty and integrity the impartial historian will record the fact that the advantage was with the Republicans. How could either ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
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