"Emmet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "jackals," whose stature corresponds with the text, and by others as "pengolens" or ant-eaters (manis pentedactyla). The learned Sanskritist, H. H. Wilson, quotes the name Pippilika ant-gold, given by the people of Little Thibet to the precious dust thrown up in the emmet heaps. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... us be, zoa's to be 'andy vur the train when her starts off. Her doan't stay no while. I vound Zam Emmet zarving here as porter—you mind Zam? Danged if I knawed 'en, vurst along, the vace of 'en's that altered: grawed a beard, her hev. But her zays to me, 'How be gettin' 'long, Isaac?' an' then I zaw who 'twas—an' us fell to talkin', and her zaid the train staps ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... or spots in his body. You regard only the handiwork of carpenters and masons and stone-cutters, and call this a house; not what one hath within, his children, his wife, his friends and attendants, with whom if a man lived in an emmet's bed or a bird's nest, enjoying in common the ordinary comforts of life, this man may be affirmed to live a ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... lent him a new set of organs of sense of wonderful delicacy. Emerson looked at nature as a poet, and his natural history, if left to himself, would have been as vague as that of Polonius. But Thoreau had a pair of eyes which, like those of the Indian deity, could see the smallest emmet on the blackest stone in the darkest night,—or come nearer to seeing it than those of most mortals. Emerson's long intimacy with him taught him to give an outline to many natural objects which would have been poetic nebulae to him but for this companionship. ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... adjust the tucker of her machine, Mrs. Emmet looked up, and involuntarily the women shook hands, ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson |
