"Most" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there is, they haven't told me. It's not likely they would. But I thought I saw something coming up, and as it seemed to be the most natural thing in the world, I mentioned it. As for me,—Miss Mellerby doesn't care a straw for me. You ...
— An Eye for an Eye • Anthony Trollope
... infirmity, among others, Mr. Merrywinkle, after two or three glasses of wine, falls fast asleep; and he has scarcely closed his eyes, when Mrs. Merrywinkle and Mrs. Chopper fall asleep likewise. It is on awakening at tea-time that their most alarming symptoms prevail; for then Mr. Merrywinkle feels as if his temples were tightly bound round with the chain of the street-door, and Mrs. Merrywinkle as if she had made a hearty dinner of half-hundredweights, ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... your friend. I haf always loaf you, I haf forget vhat it vas like not to loaf you. It ees true you vere scarce polite about dthe reading. I did not know I bore you. I feel it fery deep. It might not matter to zome Nordthern zhentlemen, but I am dthe most sensible man you ...
— Under the Southern Cross • Elizabeth Robins
... the ripple changed to a plaintive minor accompaniment, that had in it an undertone as of far-off winds and waves. Then the full, clear voice of the girl rang out in that most beautiful of songs, which alone should make famous the genius of Jean Ingelow ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... others small, That never knowes himselfe at all, As the false people raise him higher, Himselfe in's shadow hee'l admire. The fairest Gemme without true light, Without true praise great titles, flight: Blest Tiberinus, and most free In thy selfe alone thoul't learne ...
— The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils • Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski
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