"British" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disappointment—that one becomes suspicious of it. Its apparent inopportuneness may even, on certain occasions, cause violent anger. Indeed, many of the difficulties between foreign residents and their native servants have been due to the smile. Any man who believes in the British tradition that a good servant must be solemn is not likely to endure with patience the smile of his 'boy.' At present, however, this particular phase of Western eccentricity is becoming more fully recognised by the Japanese; they are beginning to learn that the average English-speaking ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... But what does that matter? I shall work a good deal at the British Museum. It will oblige me to be away from ...
— The Emancipated • George Gissing
... that it cannot but promote the cause of peace and good understanding between the British and Russian Governments if Monsieur V—— be authorized to relate in the columns of some publication enjoying a wide circulation, the steps by which he was enabled to throw light on the occurrences ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... under existing circumstances, I am no better off than he is, though to be sure as a British subject, my consul, who resides in Santiago, will doubtless ...
— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman
... up close, to our no small dread. The next day they entered into a consultation about us, and, after it was over, their interpreter told us that we must prepare ourselves to die next morning, whereupon, being very much dejected, I spoke to this effect in the British [Welsh] tongue: 'Have I escaped so many dangers, and must I now be knocked on the head like a dog!' Then presently came an Indian to me, which afterward appeared to be a war captain belonging to the sachem of the Doegs (whose original, I find, must needs be from the Old Britons), and took me ...
— Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology • John D. Baldwin
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