"Esther" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The writer, one Esther Schwarz, professed the liveliest trepidation at first meeting the screen idol, but was swiftly reassured by the unaffected cordiality of her reception. She found that success had not spoiled Miss Baxter. A sincere artist, she yet absolutely lacked the usual temperament and ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson
... let's goo down the grove to-night; The moon is up, 'tis all so light As day, an' win' do blow enough To sheaeke the leaves, but tidden rough. Come, Esther, teaeke, vor wold time's seaeke, Your hooded cloke, that's on the pin, An' wrap up warm, an' teaeke my eaerm, You'll vind it better out than in. Come, Etty dear; come out o' door, An' teaeke ...
— Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect • William Barnes
... thoroughly natural figure, and remains a natural figure to the end of the book: an uneducated man and full of failings, but a man always, and therefore to be forgiven by the reader only a little less readily than Esther herself forgives him. Mr. Hardy's "Alec D'Urberville" is a grotesque and violent lay figure, a wholly incredible cad. Mr. Hardy, by killing Tess's child, takes away the one means by which his heroine could have been led to return to D'Urberville ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... of someone being in love with love rather than the person they believed the object of their affections? That was Esther! But she passes through the crisis into a ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
... "This is Esther, my relative and servant," answered Sarah. "She has lived with me a mouth now, but she fears thee, lord, so she runs away always. Perhaps she looked at thee sometime ...
— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus
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