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Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had. - James Hilton, Lost Horizon [1933] One cold gusty night in December a boy rang the bell of the doctor's house in Shawgate, and when Susan came to the door left word that there had been an accident to a dancer at the local theatre and would the doctor please come at once. - James Hilton, We Are Not Alone [1937] (ch. 1) In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on. - James Hilton, We Are Not Alone [1937] (prologue) To the north where the red plains of Manchuria draw near to Siberia the light of the September dawn lay along the horizon. - Alice Tisdale Hobart (Alice Nourse Hobart), Oil for the Lamps of China [1933] (pt. 1, ch. 1) It appears from tradition, as well as some parish registers still extant, that the lands of Dalcastle (or Dalchastel, as it is often spelled) were possessed by a family of the name of Colwan, about one hundred and fifty years ago, and for at least a century previous to that period. - James Hogg ("The Ettrick Shepherd"), The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner [1824] There is nothing in New England corresponding at all to the feudal aristocracies of the Old World. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner [1859] Achilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which stated a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing! - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad, (Pope's translation) Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls Of heroes into Hades' dark And left their bodies to rot as feasts For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (book I), (Lombardo translation) Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide after he had sacked Troy's sacred city, and saw the towns of many men and knew their mind. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey "I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?" said my brother's wife. - Anthony Hope (pseudonym of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins), The Prisoner of Zenda [1894] "Then you offer me no hope, Doctor?" - Emerson Hough, 54-40 or Fight [1909] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK "Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." - Emerson Hough, The Covered Wagon [1922] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK "Gentleman, this is America!" - Emerson Hough, The Mississippi Bubble [1902] (book 1, ch. 1) Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened. - William Henry Hudson, Green Mansions [1904] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK One of the fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of the ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses, ruined boiling houses; often ruined mansions that were too expensive to maintain. - Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica [1929] The Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle, within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the Universities. - Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days [1857] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese. - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Fantine, bk. 1, ch. 1), (Charles E. Wilbour translation) It is this day three hundred and forty-eight years six months and nineteen days that the good people of Paris were awakened by a grand pealing from all the bells in the three districts of the Cite, the Universite, and the Ville. - Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame [1831] (bk. 1, ch. 1) Ursus and Home were fast firends. Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf. Their dispositions tallied. - Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs [1869] (pt. 1, ch. 1), (also titled l'Homme Qui Rit) (Joseph L. Blamire translation) Christmas day in the year 182- was somewhat remarkable in the island of Guernsey. Snow fell on that day. In the Channel Islands, a frosty winter is remarkable, and a fall of snow is an event. - Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea [1866] (first part, book I) "Are you coming in to watch the dancing, Lady Conway?" - Edith Maude Hull, The Sheik [1921] (ch. 1) One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent. - Fannie Hurst, Back Street [1930] (ch. 1) Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. - Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God [1937] To take Mark Sabre at the age of thirty-four, and in the year 1912, and at the place Penny Green is to necessitate looking back a little towards the time of his marriage in 1904, but happens to find him in good light for observation. - Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, If Winter Comes [1921] (pt. 1, ch. 1) Displaying page 20 of 98 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 [20] 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98
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