"Cr" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that Flag Days, however admirable their objects, have been a little overdone. But it was sheer bad luck that brought Stuttfield face to face with a flag-seller just as we were entering the Fitz. She came at him with a determined aspect and began "The Red Cr——" ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 • Various
... Mark, there is enough on't to fill the old 'Cocus, ag'in and ag'in. How deep it is, I don't pretend to know; but it's a good hundred paces across it, and the spot is as round as that there chimbly, that you call a cr'ature." ...
— The Crater • James Fenimore Cooper
... servility of those below them! The fools would not recognize Socrates if they fell over him in the street; but they can perceive Crœsus a mile off; they can smell him a block away; and they will dislocate their vertebrae abasing themselves before him. It reminds one of the time of Louis XIV. in France, when millions of people were ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly
... "Cr-a-ab apples and custarrd pies!" Archer exclaimed, still hardly able to believe his eyes. "I sure did think you was at the bottom of ...
— Tom Slade on a Transport • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... had formed the subject of my reflections. Chantilly was a quondam cobbler of the Rue St. Denis, who, becoming stage-mad, had attempted the rle of Xerxes, in Crbillon's tragedy so called, and been ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... nerve runs from the brain case (Cr.), into the periotic bone, and is distributed to the several portions of this labyrinth. In an ordinary fish this internal ear is the sole auditory organ we should find; the sound-waves would travel through the water to the elastic cranium ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
... Cr. By culture (?) acquired by the children through learning more common fractions and our crazy tables of weights and ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... included his poems, which are of small merit, the Trait des quatre vertus cardinales aprs Snque, and a translation of the Lysis of Plato. In 1558 appeared at Lyons the collection of stories and fables entitled the Nouvelles rcrations et joyeux devis. It is on this work that the claim put forward for Des Priers as one of the early masters of French prose rests. Some of the tales are attributed to the editors, Nicholas Denisot and Jacques Pelletier, but their share is certainly limited to the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various
... in place of [oe], especially when italicized: Ph[ae]bus; Cr[ae]sus (twice); C[ae]us The spellings Pasiph[ae] (for Pasiphae or Pasiphae:) and Androdus (for Androclus or Androcles) were also ...
— Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame • Francesco Colonna
... the dying king, stumbles up over the icy rocks to the shore, his armour clashing and clanking, the verse uses all the clangour of cr—ck, the slipping s's too, and the vowel a is used in all its changes; when the shore is finally reached, the verse suddenly turns into smoothness, the long o's giving the same feeling of breadth and calm that modern music would attempt if it ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell |
